[HARDCOVER: US] There goes the neighborhood

Joshua Cooper Ramo does a nimble job of showing how ideas such as chaos science and complexity theory shed light on the world’s current political and economic climate

AP , WASHINGTON

Though Ramo sounds annoyingly fuzzy and vaguely New Agey when he tries to outline tactics for dealing with “the age of the unthinkable,” he’s at least managed, in this stimulating volume, to make the reader seriously contemplate the alarming nature of a rapidly changing world — a world in which uncertainty and indeterminacy are givens, and avalanches, negative cascades and tectonic shifts are ever-present dangers.

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