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Adapt

Paperback • 2011 • English • 1. edition

Adapt: why success always starts with failure

By Tim Harford

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About the book

Everything we know about solving the world's problems is wrong. Out: Plans, experts and above all, leaders. In: Adapting - improvise rather than plan; fail, learn, and try again In this groundbreaking new book, Tim Harford shows how the world's most complex and important problems - including terrorism, climate change, poverty, innovation, and the financial crisis - can only be solved from the bottom up by rapid experimenting and adapting. From a spaceport in the Mojave Desert to the street battl...Show more

Economics

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ISBN

9781408701539

Publisher

Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)

Published year

2011

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Adapt

Format

Paperback

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