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Normal Accidents Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition

Charles Perrow

Normal Accidents

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

Ezra Klein said it was one of his favorite books, describing it as a study of highrisk technologies and accidents like Three Mile Island.

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One of my favorite books, I think, is Normal Accidents by Charles Perrault, which is Living with High Risk Technologies. And it's about like, sort of accidents like Three Mile Island.

— Episode: To Understand This Era, You Need to Thin...

Episode: To Understand This Era, You Need to Think in Syste...

Ezra Klein said it was one of his favorite books, describing it as a study of highrisk technologies and accidents like Three Mile Island.

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One of my favorite books, I think, is Normal Accidents by Charles Perrault, which is Living with High Risk Technologies. And it's about like, sort of accidents like Three Mile Island.

99% Invisible

Podcast

99% Invisible

It was discussed as a book about how some systems are prone to catastrophic failures, and that failures in those systems should be considered inevitable.

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The wise old sociologist Charles Perrault's most famous book is called Normal Accidents.

— Episode: Cautionary Tales

Episode: Cautionary Tales

It was discussed as a book about how some systems are prone to catastrophic failures, and that failures in those systems should be considered inevitable.

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The wise old sociologist Charles Perrault's most famous book is called Normal Accidents.

It's about how certain kinds of system are vulnerable to catastrophic failure, so vulnerable, in fact, that we should view accidents in those systems as inevitable.

StarTalk Radio

Podcast

StarTalk Radio

It was mentioned in the context of the Challenger disaster, proposing that the accident stemmed from the system's culture and risk management rather than individual error.

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There's a great sociologist called Charles Perot who wrote a book about what he called Normal Accident Theory.

— Episode: StarTalk Live! Sociology and the Human C...

Episode: StarTalk Live! Sociology and the Human Condition

It was mentioned in the context of the Challenger disaster, proposing that the accident stemmed from the system's culture and risk management rather than individual error.

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There's a great sociologist called Charles Perot who wrote a book about what he called Normal Accident Theory.

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