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Adapt

Tim Harford

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 battles of Iraq, from a blazing offshore drilling rig to everyday decisions in our business and personal lives, this is a handbook for surviving - and prospering - in our complex and ever-shifting world.

  • Classification : Business, Management & Economics
  • Pub Date : MAY 10, 2012
  • Imprint : Abacus
  • Page Extent : 320
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780349121512
  • Price : INR 699
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Tim Harford

Tim Harford (Author)
Tim Harford is the author of nine books including The Undercover Economist and How To Make The World Add Up which was a Sunday Times number 1 Business Book Bestseller. Tim is the writer and presenter of the Cautionary Tales podcast starring Helena Bonham Carter and Jeffrey Wright which has already reached 10 million downloads. He is also the presenter of the BBC Radio shows More or Less Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy and How To Vaccinate The World - where his guests included Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates.

Tim's TED talks have been viewed more than 11 million times and he has spoken at the Royal Institution and the Sydney Opera House. He is a member of Nuffield College Oxford an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and in 2019 was made an OBE "for services to improving economic understanding".

Tim's children are aged 16 14 and 9.

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