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Adapt

Hardcover • 2011 • English • 1. edition

Adapt: why success always starts with failure

By Harford, Tim

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About the book

Outlines a counterintuitive approach to changing the world by assessing its failures, drawing on myriad disciplines to argue that complex challenges must be met through adaptive trial-and-error practices that do not depend on expert opinions or ready-made solutions.

Social and ethical issues
Violence and abuse in society
Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

Book details

ISBN

9780374100964

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published year

2011

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Adapt

Format

Hardcover

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