books

Paul is now writing a new book ‘Positive Linking: How Networks and Incentives Can Revolutionise the World’, which should appear in spring 2012.

It is a major development of, and containing much new material and themes, his Royal Society of Arts pamphlet ‘N squared: public policy and the power of networks’, available here.  A podcast of Paul’s talk on this at the RSA in November 2010 is here.  There is a Financial Times op-ed piece here.

Here is an introduction to the arguments, and here are some comments from reviews of ‘Why Most Things Fail'.

 

Death of Economics
Butterfly Economics
 Why Most Things Fail

The Death of Economics came out in the UK in 1994. The book is an attack on a particular form of economics, which remains dominant in the teaching of the subject. It has been translated into many languages, including a cartoon strip version. Download the preface, first and fifth chapters.

The next was Butterfly Economics, published in the UK in 1998 and which made the amazon.com, top 10 when it came out in the US in 2000, and received widespread coverage. You can download the Introduction, Preface and the first and second chapters.

The latest is Why Most Things Fail, published in the UK in 2005. It was a Business Week US Business Book of the year in 2006. You can download the Introduction, Preface and the first and second chapters. Read Nature magazine's book review here.