# Why Most Things Fail

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- Book: [Why Most Things Fail](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-ormerod/why-most-things-fail) ([Why Most Things Fail.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-ormerod/why-most-things-fail.md))
- Authors: [Paul Ormerod](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-ormerod)
- Publisher: pantheon
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-0743-023-6
- Published: 2007-12-18
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## Description

With the same originality and astuteness that marked his widely praised Butterfly Economics, Paul Ormerod now examines the “Iron Law of Failure” as it applies to business and government–and...