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My new book 'Why Most Things Fail'is now published by Faber and Faber April 2005 in the UK. 

 

Here is the preface and introduction.

Here is an article I wrote for the Sunday Times in March 2005 about it, and here is an article on why British Universities fail, for the Times Higher Educational Supplement.

I am speaking about the book at 3 literary fesitvals:  Oxford 15 April, Bristol 16 May and Edinburgh 19 August

Readers of the book are promised more technical details in papers on this website, and below are two such papers which deal with the ability of people, firms and governments to learn in practical situations.

Pittsburgh June 21-24 2004 for the North American Association for Computation in the Social Sciences

This paper deals with the cognitive limits on the abilities of economic agents to learn.  It is available here.

Australia 29 September - 2 October 2003 : keynote address at Society of Australian Economists conference, Canberra.  Here is a draft of the paper, which covers the concept of how much can economic agents learn.

Site last updated 6 April 2005

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