To answer this question, Alan Greenspan embarked on a rigorous and far-reaching multiyear examination of how Homo economicus predicts the economic future, and how it can predict it better. Economic risk is a fact of life in every realm, from home to business to government at all levels. Whether we're conscious of it or not, we make wagers on the future virtually every day, one way or another. Very often, however, we're steering by out-of-date maps, when we're not driven by factors entirely beyond our conscious control.
The Map and the Territory is nothing less than an effort to update our forecasting conceptual grid. It integrates the history of economic prediction, the new work of behavioral economists, and the fruits of the author's own remarkable career to offer a thrillingly lucid and empirically based grounding in what we can
know about economic forecasting and what we can't.The book explores how culture is and isn't destiny and probes what we can predict about the world's biggest looming challenges, from debt and the reform of the welfare state to natural disasters in an age of global warming.
No map is the territory, but Greenspan's approach, grounded in his trademark rigor, wisdom, and unprecedented context, ensures that this particular map will assist in safe journeys down many different roads, traveled by individuals, businesses, and the state.
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Praise for The Age of Turbulence:
'First rate ... The Age of Turbulence is intelligent in a way that few popular books on economics manage or even try to be ... an enjoyable read' Economist
'Revealing and penetrating' Sunday Times
'Unexpectedly charming, surprisingly frank ... The charm of Greenspan's book is its self-portrait ... the result is one of the more interesting characters in the history of our democracy' The New York Times
'Entertaining and insightful ... Greenspan is an oracle smart enough to know what he doesn't know ... such humility, coming from someone as powerful as Alan Greenspan, is disarmingly refreshing, as is this interesting and edifying book' Boston Globe
'Greenspan's voice is unique ... the stories are wonderful' Los Angeles Times
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