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| Author | Charles Perrow |
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| Publisher | Basic Books |
Publication date | 1984 |
| ISBN | 978-0-691-00412-9 |
Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies is a 1984 book by Yale sociologist Charles Perrow, which analyses complex systems from a sociological perspective. Perrow argues that multiple and unexpected failures are built into society's complex and tightly coupled systems, and that accidents are unavoidable and cannot be designed around.[1][2]
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- ^ Clearfield, Chris; Tilcsik, András (2018). Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It. New York: Penguin Press. ISBN 9780735222632.