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The author of the critically acclaimed Butterfly Economics reassesses the "Iron Law of Failure" in terms of its business and political applications, debunking conventional economic theory to explain how companies and policy-setting government sectors behave like living organisms and why change and evolution are essential to their continued existence. 17,500 first printing.
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\Paul Ormerod was the head of the Economic Assessment Unit at The Economist and the director of economics at the Henley Centre for Forecasting in England. He has taught economics at the universities of London and Manchester, and was a founder of the consulting firm Volterra. He lives in London.
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