The Wisdom of Crowds

The Wisdom of Crowds
ISBN-10
0307275051
ISBN-13
9780307275059
Series
The Wisdom Of Crowds
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
336
Language
English
Published
2005-08-16
Publisher
Anchor
Author
James Surowiecki

Description

In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant—better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future. With boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, behavioral economics, artificial intelligence, military history, and politics to show how this simple idea offers important lessons for how we live our lives, select our leaders, run our companies, and think about our world.

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