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Tim Harford

Messy

How to Be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World

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The urge to tidiness seems to be rooted deep in the human psyche. Many of us feel threatened by anything that is vague, unplanned, scattered around or hard to describe. We find comfort in having a script to rely on, a system to follow, in being able to categorise and file away.We all benefit from tidy organisation - up to a point. A large library needs a reference system. Global trade needs the shipping container. Scientific collaboration needs measurement units. But the forces of tidiness have marched too far. Corporate middle managers and government bureaucrats have long tended to insist that everything must have a label, a number and a log… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4087-0675-6
  • EAN: 9781408706756
  • Produktnummer: 18942167
  • Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.7 cm 444 g
  • Gewicht: 444

Über den Autor


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.

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