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The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity by Carlo M. Cipolla with Nassim Nicholas Taleb new arrivals a horrifying past to forgetThroughout history, human stupidity has hindered the growth of mankind's welfare and happiness. More powerful than the Mafia or the military, it forms an unorganised group, which has no chief, no board, and no by laws and yet it manages to operate in perfect unison and to devastating effect. Both hilarious and deadly serious, economic historian Carlo M. Cipolla established this model as a way for us to detect, understand and eventually neutralise