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The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games
Bent Flyvbjerg, Allison Stewart, Alexander Budzier
Given that Olympic Games held over the past decade each have cost USD 8.9 billion on average, the size and financial risks of the Games warrant study. The objectives of the Oxford…
econ.GN2016★ 5 cited
Big is Fragile: An Attempt at Theorizing Scale
Atif Ansar, Bent Flyvbjerg, Alexander Budzier +1
In this paper we characterise the propensity of big capital investments to systematically deliver poor outcomes as "fragility," a notion suggested by Nassim Taleb. A thing or syste…