Unintended Consequences: How to Improve our Government, our Businesses, and our Lives - Softcover

Platt, Harlan D

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615593577 ISBN 13: 9780615593579

Publisher: Charles L Webster Publishers, 2012

Synopsis

Unintended consequences affect people's lives, happiness, and fortunes. They arise from every action and decision. This provocative book presents many unintended consequences and ultimately explains how their impact can be reduced. Chapters in this fascinating book describe unintended consequences caused by governments, people, science, technology, companies, and medicine. Readers learn how unintended consequences can be controlled. The world will never be free of them. However, it is possible to control the biggest perpetrator of the most damaging unintended consequences - the government. Discussions of unintended consequences are well documented, informative and written in a comfortable style. This is a book that will be read, reread, and shared with others.

About this title

About the Author:

Harlan Platt is a Professor of finance at Northeastern University. He has written books on topics as varied as the stock market, corporate restructuring, and several children's books. Now he turns to a topic that everyone has heard about but about which few know very much about.

About this edition

• Publisher: Charles L Webster Publishers
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0615593577
• ISBN 13: 9780615593579
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222