Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies

by Geoffrey West

Unlike the predominantly positive images of many life-history events such as birth, growth, and maturity, most of us don’t want to confront aging and death. As Woody Allen pithily put it: “I’m not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”