The Ingenuity Gap: Facing the Economic, Environmental, and Other Challenges of an Increasingly Complex and Unpredictable World by Thomas Homer-Dixon - 2000-10-17

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New York, NY, U.S.A. : Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 2000., 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo, hardcover, fine inlightly edgeworn dj. First Edition. Facing the Economic, Environmental, and Other Challenges of an Increasingly Complex and Unpredictable World, Homer-Dixon makes clear the extent to which we live with, construct, and depend upon systems we little understand-systems of law, of the market, of institutions, of technologies; biological and ecological systems that were already intricate and unpredictable before human impact'

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 0375401865 . SIGNED by the author on the title-page. .

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Knopf, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. Stated First Edition- "Looking back from the year 2100, we'll see a period when our creations--technological, social, ecological--outstripped our understanding and we lost control of our destiny. And we will think: if only--if only we'd had the ingenuity and will to prevent some of that. I am convinced that there is still time to muster that ingenuity--but the hour is late." --Thomas Homer-Dixon- In The Ingenuity Gap, Thomas Homer-Dixon asks: Is our world becoming too complex and fast-paced to manage? The challenges facing human societies--from international financial crises and global climate change to pandemics of tuberculosis and AIDS--converge, intertwine, and often remain largely beyond our understanding. Most of us suspect that the "experts" don't really know what's going on, and that we've released forces that are neither managed nor manageable. This is the "ingenuity gap," the term… Read More