Oct 28, 2019
6 min read
The Law of Unintended Consequences: When Smart Decisions Go Haywire
If you were a farmer and your crops were being decimated, what would you do to fix the problem?
In 1958, Chinese leaders had just launched the Great Leap Forward, a movement that aimed to boost the economy through large industrial and agricultural changes. One of the first campaigns to be launched in this initiative was the Four Pests Campaign.
