The Power of Stupidity
Kali

by Giancarlo Livraghi


All chapters online
and other parts of the book


The Power of Stupidity
is entirely online
in Google Books

 
(also Il potere della stupidità in Italian)


For readers who prefer to pick and choose
(or anyhow to take them one at a time)
here are all the chapters
and some related things


Chapter 1 (pdf)
The Stupidity Problem


Chapter 2 (pdf)
Stupidity and Biology


Chapter 3 (pdf)
Predictable or Unpredictable


Chapter 4 (pdf)
Murphy’s Law


Chapter 5 (pdf)
Parkinson’s Law


Chapter 6 (pdf)
The Peter Principle


Chapter 7 (pdf)
Cipolla’s Laws


Chapter 8 (pdf)
The Stupidology Graph


Chapter 9 (pdf)
Three Corollaries
and also
In Memory of Peter Blake


Chapter 10 (pdf)
The Stupidity of Power


Chapter 11 (pdf)
The Ways of Power


Chapter 12 (pdf)
The Stupidity of Bureaucracy
and also
The Scorpion and the Frog


Chapter 13 (pdf)
Stupidity and Ignorance


Chapter 14 (pdf)
Stupidity and Fear


Chapter 15 (pdf)
Stupidity and Habit


Chapter 16 (pdf)
Stupidity and Haste


Chapter 17 (pdf)
Stupidity and Cunning


Chapter 18 (pdf)
The Vicious Circle of Stupidity


Chapter 19 (pdf)
The Stupidity of Technologies
and also
several articles on this subject


Chapter 20 (pdf)
The Subtle Art of Simplicity


Chapter 21 (pdf)
Problems of Perception
and also
Views of the World


Chapter 22 (pdf)
Idols and Icons
and also
Metaphors and metamorphoses


Chapters 23 and 24 (pdf)
The Power of Obscurantism
Stupidity and Superstition


Chapter 25 (pdf)
Is Stupidity Growing?


Chapter 26 (pdf)
Stupidity Isn’t Harmless


Chapter 27 – and more
Quotations


Chapter 28 (pdf)
Embarrassing – or Obsessive?


Chapter 29 (pdf)
Errare Humanum


Chapter 30 (pdf)
Antidotes and Prevention


Appendix 1
Brown’s Job


Appendix 2
Simple Thoughts on Complexity


Also online
Foreword   Introduction   Epilogue


Of 23 articles in English (starting in 1996)
one added after the book was published
Is there a definition of stupidity?




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