The Watchman's Rattle

丽贝卡•D•科斯塔（Rebecca D. Costa），美国社会生物学家，继托马斯·弗里德曼、贾雷德·戴蒙德、马尔科姆·格拉德威尔之后又一位思想领袖，E.O.威尔逊生物多样性技术先驱奖获得者。从硅谷的事业中急流勇退后，科斯塔用了六年时间进行研究和写作，对当今世界大势和正在涌现的潮流提出了一种进化论解释。在日本东京长大，越战时期住在老挝首都万象，科斯塔将自己的全景视野归功于跨文化的熏陶。------译者：李亦敏

出版者:Vanguard Press

作者:Rebecca Costa

页数:384

出版时间:2010-10-12

价格:USD 26.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781593156053

图书标签:环境复杂性认知英文版英文原版美国经济哲学

Why can’t we solve our problems anymore?Why do threats such as the Gulf oil spill, worldwide recession, terrorism, and global warming suddenly seem unstoppable? Are there limits to the kinds of problems humans can solve? Rebecca Costa confronts- and offers a solution to-these questions in her highly anticipated and game-changing book, The Watchman’s Rattle. Costa pulls headline for today’s news to demonstrate how accelerating complexity quickly outpaces that rate at which the human brain can develop new capabilities.With compelling evidenced based on research in the rise and fall of Mayan, Khmer, and Roman empires, Costa shows how t ht tendency to find a quick solutions- leads to frightening long term consequence:Society’s ability to solve its most challenging, intractable problems becomes gridlocked, progress slows, and collapse ensues. A provocative new voice in the tradition of thought leaders Thomas Friedman, Jared Diamond and Malcolm Gladwell, Costa reveals how we can reverse the downward spiral. Part history, part social science, part biology, The Watchman’s Rattle is sure to provoke, engage and incite change.

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