Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics

By Paul Ormerod. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• The innovation deficit in public services: The curious problem of too much efficiency and not enough waste and failure (2009, background): “But in an open world it will still require experimentation, and experimentation necessarily involves waste (Ormerod 2005).”
• Punctuated Equilibrium in Comparative Perspective (2009, background): “However, as Paul Ormerod (2005) reminds us, failure, inefficiency, and bankruptcies are quite common in the business world, even among the nation’s largest firms.”
• Towards an Evolutionary Perspective on Regional Resilience (2015, background): “Every year, more than 10% of all companies in the United States disappear (ORMEROD 2005), and only very few firms grow old (BROUWER, 2005).”