Hormegeddon: How Too Much Of A Good Thing Leads To Disaster

Hormegeddon: How Too Much Of A Good Thing Leads To Disaster

â€œHormegeddonâ€ is the term coined by entrepreneur and New York Times Bestselling Author Bill Bonner to describe what happens when you get too much of a good thing in the sphere of public policy, economics and business. Simply put, it ends in disaster.

Drawing on stories and examples from throughout modern political historyâ€”from Napoleon's invasion of Russia to the impending collapse of the American healthcare system, from the outbreak of WWII and the fall of the Third Reich to the 21st century War on Terror, from the Great Recession to the sovereign debt crisisâ€”Bonner pursues a modest ambition: to understand what goes wrong.

History is not a clean yarn spun by its victors. It is a long tale of things that went FUBARâ€”debacles, disasters, and catastrophes. That each disaster carries with it a warning is what makes it useful to study. For instance, if the architect of a great ship tells you that â€˜not even God himself could sink this ship,' you should take the next boat. If the stock market is selling at 20 times earnings and all the expert analysts urge you to â€˜get inâ€™ because you â€˜canâ€™t loseâ€™â€”itâ€™s time to get out!

Similarly, public policy disasters are what you get when well meaning people with this same Titanic degree of certitude apply rational, small-scale problem-solving logic to inappropriately large scale planning. First, you get a declining rate of return on your investment (of time or resources) until you hit zero. Then, if you keep going through the zero floorâ€”and you always keep goingâ€”you get a disaster.

The problem is, these disasters cannot be stopped by well-informed smart people with good intentions, because they are the people who cause them in the first place.

From the mind of Bill Bonner comes Hormegeddon, a phenomenon that occurs when a small dose of something produces a favorable result, but if you increase the dosage, the results end in disaster. The same applies when the world gets too much of a good thing in public policy, economics, and business. Drawing on examples throughout modern political history, Bonner brings context and understanding to this largely ignored and anonymous phenomenon.
Country USA
Manufacturer Lioncrest Publishing
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-08-28
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Lioncrest Publishing
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-08-28
Format	Kindle eBook

Hormegeddon: How Too Much Of A Good Thing Leads To Disaster

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