The Ingenuity Gap - Rilegato

Homer-Dixon, Thomas F.

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ISBN 10: 0375401865 ISBN 13: 9780375401862

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2000

Riassunto

Argues that we are in desperate need of practical and innovative ideas to solve the complex problems and challenges confronting modern society--from global climatic change and AIDS to international financial crises--at a time in which we construct and depend on little-understood systems of law, the market, technology, and more. 15,000 first printing.

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"This remarkable work, based on an impressive amount of scholarship, travel, and
interviews, is the most persuasive forecast of the twenty-first century I have seen.
Homer-Dixon looks beyond the miracle of technological and economic growth to the vast
complexities of the real world that will increasingly put even the most advanced
societies at risk."

Edward O. Wilson
University Research Professor and Honorary Curator in Entomology
Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology
"Homer-Dixon explores how the soaring complexities of our world create monumental
challenges for our institutions and governments.  This is a powerful book -- an
intellectual, emotional, and spiritual journey to find answers to some of the most
pressing problems of our time."

Senator Timothy E. Wirth
President, The United Nations Foundation
"At the beginning of the last century that great seer, H. G. Wells, wrote that
humankind was engaged in a race between education and disaster.  The world, he sensed,
was becoming ever more complex and harder to manage.  Each new invention brought
unintended and often calamitous consequences as well as material benefits, and human
minds could not always keep pace with the knowledge explosion."

"A hundred years later, and with the world changing at a much faster pace than in
Wells' time, 'The Ingenuity Gap' offers an updated caution against human hubris.
Homer-Dixon's casual, sometimes anecdotal prose is undergirded by serious scientific
data and a truly global range of case-studies suggesting that the world is becoming a
lot more complex than our minds can grasp or our capacities can handle.  Recommended
reading for those who are still in a millennial party mood."

Paul Kennedy
J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History
Director, International Security Program
Yale University
"At the beginning of the last century that great seer, H. G. Wells, wrote that
An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate, and reflection.  By that
standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an "ingenuity gap" is  truly a new idea.  I
can think of no other new concept that so fully condenses all of the challenges we
face as a human civilization than the "ingenuity gap."  Homer-Dixon has found a way to
unite all of our concerns about economics, war, population growth, complexity, etc.
under a single heading.  He is one of an elite group of academics who can write for a
mass audience."

Robert Kaplan, author of Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History

L'autore

Thomas Homer-Dixon is Director of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Environment, Scarcity, and Violence. He lives in Toronto.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0375401865
• ISBN 13: 9780375401862
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 480
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile