Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe

by Greg Ip

Book Overview

How the very things we create to protect ourselves, like money market funds or anti-lock brakes, end up being the biggest threats to our safety and wellbeing.

We have learned a staggering amount about human nature and disaster -- yet we keep having car crashes, floods, and financial crises. Partly this is because the success we have at making life safer enables us to take bigger risks. As our cities, transport systems, and financial markets...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316286044
• ISBN13: 9780316286046
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"