The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge in an Uncertain World

by Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat

Book Overview

As Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat reveal in this innovative book, volatile political events such as the 2008 Georgia-Russia confrontation--and their catastrophic effects on business--happen much more frequently than investors imagine. On the curve that charts both the frequency of these events and the power of their impact, the "tail" of extreme political instability is not reassuringly thin but dangerously fat.
Featuring a new Foreward that accounts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199737274
• ISBN13: 9780199737277
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"