The fundamental laws of human stupidity. Chipolla K.

For the first time witty and elegantly formulated the laws of human stupidity - the phenomenon of powerful and eternal, as the phenomena of nature. Are there any fools among the Nobel laureates, how the fool differs from the bandit, what is the damage that the fool causes a common cause, how many fools in the population, how to recognize and neutralize their “dark power” - answers to these pressing questions in the magnificent work of the economy of the economy Karlo Chippollah..

at the same time, “this book in no case is neither a product of cynicism, nor an exercise in amazing”, because it is full of humor (or sarcasm), is quite scientific and is successful with readers around the world.

Also, under one cover, for the first time in Russian, the essay “Pepper, Wine (and wool)” is published - a vivid and very compact analysis of how things that we perceive as long as familiar and ordinary in the history of medieval Europe played a role revolutionary.