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I am a retired librarian, most recently serving at Indiana Wesleyan University's Cleveland Education Center.

Sunday, May 05, 2019

Accidents in Complex Systems

Erik Larson writes about how accidents are inevitable. He cites the work of sociologist Charles Perrow, who in the 1984 book Normal Accidents proposed that disasters will arise from small problems in complex, tightly-coupled systems.

-DD

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