Everything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us
- ISBN-10
- 0307951790
- ISBN-13
- 9780307951793
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 368
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Currency
- Author
- Duncan J. Watts
Description
A narrative exploration of how the concept of common sense is inadequate in today's complex world draws on multiple disciplines to offer insight into the sources of such topics as popularity, economics and self-deception.
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