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  • Why Most Things Fail

    by Paul Ormerod ...
    From the best-selling author of The Death of Economics and Butterfly Economics, a ground-breaking look at a truth all too seldom acknowledged: most commercial and public policy ventures will not succeed.Paul Ormerod draws upon recent advances in biology to help us understand the surprising consequences of the Iron Law of Failure. And he shows what strategies corporations, businesses and ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • Against the Grain

    Insights from an Economic Contrarian

    by Paul Ormerod ...
    Economists and economics have been harshly criticised recently. This book accepts many of the criticisms of conventional theory but argues that the fundamental insights of economics are capable of reinterpretation and reinvention to deal with a host of contemporary concerns – social networks, globalisation, pay inequality, climate change, automation and the growth of ‘nudge’ policy amongst many ... Read more

    $6.52 USD

  • Why Most Things Fail

    Evolution, Extinction and Economics

    by Paul Ormerod ...
    With the same originality and astuteness that marked his widely praised Butterfly Economics, Paul Ormerod now examines the “Iron Law of Failure” as it applies to business and government–and explains what can be done about it.“Failure is all around us,” asserts Ormerod. For every General Electric–still going strong after more than one hundred years–there are dozens of businesses like Central ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Butterfly Economics

    A New General Theory of Social and Economic Behavior

    by Paul Ormerod ...
    Why did VHS, an inferior video recording technology, succeed in the marketplace, driving the superior Betamax out of business? Why do big-budget, acclaimed movies sometimes flop at the box office, while low-budget, idiosyncratic films become huge hits? The answers to these questions, says Paul Omerod, remind us that economics is a science based on the workings of human society, as unpredictable an ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Positive Linking

    How Networks Can Revolutionise the World

    by Paul Ormerod ...
    According to Paul Ormerod, author of the bestselling Butterfly Economics and Why Most Things Fail, the mechanistic viewpoint of conventional economics is drastically limited - because it cannot comprehend the vital nature of networks. As our societies become ever more dynamic and intertwined, network effects on every level are increasingly profound. 'Nudge theory' is popular, but only part of the ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • Non-Equilibrium Social Science and Policy

    Introduction and Essays on New and Changing Paradigms in Socio-Economic Thinking

    Edited by Jeffrey Johnson, Andrzej Nowak, Paul Ormerod, Bridget Rosewell, Yi-Cheng Zhang ...
    Series series Understanding Complex Systems
    The overall aim of this book, an outcome of the European FP7 FET Open NESS project, is to contribute to the ongoing effort to put the quantitative social sciences on a proper footing for the 21st century. A key focus is economics, and its implications on policy making, where the still dominant traditional approach increasingly struggles to capture the economic realities we observe in the world ... Read more

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