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Megaprojects are increasingly gaining worldwide popularity, often justified by claimed economies of scale and future expansion.
However, researchers at Oxford University now find that these propositions could be false, leaving large capital investments at risk to random events. Assuming bigger to be better “is a recipe for failure,” they warn in new research set for publication later this year.