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Today the very ideas that made America great imperil its future. Our plans go awry and policies fail. History's grandest war against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, intended to improve lives, increases the gap between rich and poor. Decisions made to stem a financial crisis guarantee its worsening. Environmental strategies to protect species lead to their extinction. The traditional physics of power has been replaced by something radically different. In The Age of the Unthinkable, Joshua Cooper Ramo puts forth a revelatory new model for understanding our dangerously unpredictable world. Drawing upon history, economics, complexity theory, psychology, immunology, and the science of networks, he describes a new landscape of inherent unpredictability--and remarkable, wonderful possibility.

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[Ramo's] provocative new book...does a nimble job of showing how such theories shed light on the current political and economic climate while avoiding the worst pitfalls...[he] has managed, in this stimulating volume, to make the reader seriously contemplate the alarming nature of a rapidly changing world. --The New York Times Michiko Kukatani A great read, a wondrous and unexpected journey through a world that keeps getting more complicated. Joshua Cooper Ramo has a brilliant mind and a beautiful pen, and both are evident in this stimulating book. -Fareed Zakaria, author of The Post-American World Former foreign editor of Time , Ramo pushes the reader into uncomfortable yet exhilarating places with controversial ways of thinking about global challenges...Persuasively argued...[Ramo's] revelatory work argues that there must be some audacity in thinking before there can be any audacity of hope. --Publishers Weekly The formula on display here - reported vignettes, grand theorizing, surprising juxtapositions - will be familiar to readers of Thomas L. Friedman and Malcolm Gladwell, and Ramo executes it with verve. -- New York Times Book Review Gary Rosen Thought-provoking....Ramo questions conventional thinking and provides fresh ideas-something we deeply need these days. -Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein

The formula on display here - reported vignettes, grand theorizing, surprising juxtapositions - will be familiar to readers of Thomas L. Friedman and Malcolm Gladwell, and Ramo executes it with verve. -- New York Times Book Review Gary Rosen Thought-provoking....Ramo questions conventional thinking and provides fresh ideas-something we deeply need these days. -Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein Former foreign editor of Time , Ramo pushes the reader into uncomfortable yet exhilarating places with controversial ways of thinking about global challenges...Persuasively argued...[Ramo's] revelatory work argues that there must be some audacity in thinking before there can be any audacity of hope. --Publishers Weekly A great read, a wondrous and unexpected journey through a world that keeps getting more complicated. Joshua Cooper Ramo has a brilliant mind and a beautiful pen, and both are evident in this stimulating book. -Fareed Zakaria, author of The Post-American World [Ramo's] provocative new book...does a nimble job of showing how such theories shed light on the current political and economic climate while avoiding the worst pitfalls...[he] has managed, in this stimulating volume, to make the reader seriously contemplate the alarming nature of a rapidly changing world. --The New York Times Michiko Kukatani

The formula on display here - reported vignettes, grand theorizing, surprising juxtapositions - will be familiar to readers of Thomas L. Friedman and Malcolm Gladwell, and Ramo executes it with verve. -- <b><em>New York Times Book Review</em></b> <b>Gary Rosen</b>

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"Joshua Cooper Ramo is Managing Director and a partner at Kissinger Associates, one of the world's leading strategic advisory firms. Prior to joining Kissinger Associates, he was Assistant Managing Editor of ""Time"" and worked in the advisory and banking business in China."

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