Pläne, Experten und vor allem Führer sind out. Die neue Regel lautet: Passe dich an! Die drängendsten Herausforderungen unserer Welt, wie Terrorismus, Armut, Klimawandel, Erneuerung und Finanzkrise, können nur angenommen werden, indem wir experimentieren, uns anpassen, versagen, lernen, wieder probieren. Improvisieren statt planen ist angesagt in einer immer komplexeren, sich immer schneller verändernden Welt.

@2@Everything we know about solving the world's problems is wrong. @3@@2@Out: Plans, experts and above all, leaders. @3@@2@In: Adapting - improvise rather than plan; fail, learn, and try again@3@@2@In this groundbreaking new book, Tim Harford shows how the world's most complex and important problems - including terrorism, climate change, poverty, innovation, and the financial crisis - can only be solved from the bottom up by rapid experimenting and adapting.@3@@2@From a spaceport in the Mojave Desert to the street battles of Iraq, from a blazing offshore drilling rig to everyday decisions in our business and personal lives, this is a handbook for surviving - and prospering - in our complex and ever-shifting world.@3@

Vorwort

• The Undercover Economist takes on the world - the new book from global bestseller Tim Harford

Autorentext
Tim Harford is a senior columnist for the Financial Times and the presenter of Radio 4's More or Less. He was the winner of the Bastiat Prize for economic journalism in 2006, and More or Less was commended for excellence in journalism by the Royal Statistical Society in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Harford lives in Oxford with his wife and three children, and is a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. His other books include The Undercover Economist, The Logic of Life and Adapt.

Klappentext

'A highly readable argument . . . Very impressive' Nassim N. Taleb, author of The Black Swan

When faced with complex problems we have become accustomed to looking to our leaders for grand visions that blaze a path to success. But in this ground-breaking book, Tim Harford shows us that in fact, the more we fail, the more likely we are to succeed.

'Sometimes a writer comes up with such a compelling idea, you will him to succeed page after page . . . He shows that the key to success is constant experimentation . . . Adapt is an excellent book' John Arlidge, Sunday Times

'Tim Harford's terrific new book urges us to understand and profit from our muddling . . . Harford is a gifted writer whose prose courses swiftly and pleasurably. He has assembled a powerful combination of anecdotes and data to make a serious point: companies, governments and people must recognise the limits of their wisdom and embrace the muddling of mankind' Edward Glaeser, FT

'If you think economics is boring, or beyond you, you haven't read Tim Harford . . . He splashes his text with memorable nuggets' David Phelan, Time Out

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Zusammenfassung

• The Undercover Economist takes on the world - the new book from global bestseller Tim Harford