Sunday, November 24, 2013

Book review: The age of the unthinkable: Why the new world disorder constantly surprises us and what we can do about it by Joshua Cooper Ramo, ISBN9780316118088

The book covers a lot of new thinking in the current economics and political sciences:
  • Eric von Hipppel Democratizing Innovation
  • Ricardo Semler and his new management practice in his company Semco
  • Per Bak and his self-organized criticality phenomenon
  • Isaiah Berlin: Hedgehogs thinker vs fox thinker
  • Masako Watanabe: Styles of reasoning in Japan and the United States: Logic of education in two cultures
  • Richard Nisbett: The geography of thoughts
  • Mike Moritz and secret of successful venture investment in Sequoia Capital
  • Aharon Farkash's tenure at Israeli military intelligence unit IDF
  • Shigeru Miyamoto's creation of Wii and revival of Nintendo
  • Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scevola's invention of camouflage in World War I
  • Dan Kaminsky's discovery of DNS flaw and innovative way of fixing it
  • Anselm Kiefer's painting Deutschlands Geistesheldon
  • Tony Moll's leading anti HIV efforts in South Africa and re-emergence of TB due to failure of patient education
  • Gertrude Stein and her role in new art movement (Cubism) in 1910s
  • David Kotz with Fred Weir Revolution from above: The demise of the Soviet System
  • C.S Holling and Simon Levin: Two ecologists
  • Bill Broweder's Russian investment strategy and his early detection of 2008 financial meltdown

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