books

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.