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Greg Ip
Safety & Survival
Greg Ip is a Canadian-American journalist and chief economics commentator for The Wall Street Journal who studied economics and journalism at Carleton University.
Biography
Greg Ip (born June 18, 1964) is a Canadian-American journalist who serves as the chief economics commentator for The Wall Street Journal. A native of Canada, he lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
He received a bachelor’s degree in economics and journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa. He is the author of Foolproof (2015), a book that examines human responses to disaster and safety. The book considers how successes in making life safer can encourage larger risks, how interconnected and complex systems raise the potential for catastrophe, and whether efforts to avoid danger might in some cases increase exposure.
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Books by Greg Ip
Foolproof
Foolproof (2015) examines how making life safer can enable bigger risks, how growing interconnectedness and complexity increase catastrophe potential, and whether attempts to avoid danger may actually expose us more to risk.