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Bless the Coal-black Hearts of the Broadway Critics

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

Private Failures Are Great

Tharp reflected with hindsight that the fund raising for the show had been too easy. She ruefully admitted, there were seeds of doubt already present about some aspects of the showl. The logic of the schedule kept us from looking at a few basic problems. We humans have an extraordinary capacity to deny the obvious. Early problems are the easiest to fix.

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