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Development Drums: Tim Harford on Adapt (why success always begins with failure)

2/27/12
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Development Drums is a podcast about international development and global poverty hosted by Owen Barder, CGD Senior Fellow and Director for Europe. Development Drums aims to be an in-depth discussion of a particular issue. New episodes of Development Drums will be posted on CGD’s multimedia page.

Tim Harford

Tim Harford, a journalist at the Financial Times and author of The Undercover Economist and Adapt: Why Success Always Begins with Failure, talks about the implications for development of his idea that successful complex systems emerge from a process of trial and error.

Development Drums is hosted by Owen Barder and produced by Anna Scott at the Center for Global Development in Europe.


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