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“Bent Flyvbjerg is one of the world’s major project gurus. He’s been writing books on mega projects for a couple of decades. This was his attempt, working with a Canadian journalist, to write something a bit less academic and easier to get your head around.” Read more...
“This book is exceptionally interesting. Bent Flyvbjerg is an Oxford-based Danish academic. He is the main writer and it’s mainly based on his work, with Dan Gardner as co-author. Flyvbjerg’s work is to look at megaprojects and he poses a law of megaprojects: that they generally go over budget and over time and why this is bad.” Read more...
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