The Ingenuity Gap: Facing the Economic, Environmental, and Other Challenges of an Increasingly Complex and Unpredictable World

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Vintage Books, 2002 - 485 pages
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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. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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THE INGENUITY GAP: How Can We Solve the Problems of the Future?

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A far-reaching examination of our institutions and issues, from the economy to government to ecology, and the challenge of overcoming problems as fast as we can create them.Homer-Dixon (Political ... Consulter l'avis complet

The ingenuity gap

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In search of an understanding of how humankind is responding to increasingly complex social, technological, and environmental problemsDfrom AIDS to global warmingDHomer-Dixon (political science, Univ ... Consulter l'avis complet

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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.


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