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

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.

Author: Harlan D. Platt
Publisher: Charles L. Webster Publishers
Published: 02/23/2012
Pages: 222
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780615593579

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.

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