Unintended Consequences - Harlan D Platt - Bog

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.