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The wisdom of crowds : why the many are smarter than the few and how collective wisdom shapes politics, business, economies, societies, and nations

The wisdom of crowds has a deceptively simple and counterintuitive premise: If you want to make a correct decision or solve a problem, large groups of people are smarter than a few experts. This is a book that explains in a completely new way how the world really works. For his examples, author James Surowiecki ranges across a wide range of subject areas, from finance and economics to computer science to biology. (One example from elsewhere: WalMart prices its goods according to mass perceptions of those goods' value; values which are commonly known are underpriced; those which are not are overpriced.) Surowiecki goes against the conventional wisdom and draws startling conclusions about society, free markets, scientific research, the environment, and even our democratic form of government.

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  • "The wisdom of crowds has a deceptively simple and counterintuitive premise: If you want to make a correct decision or solve a problem, large groups of people are smarter than a few experts. This is a book that explains in a completely new way how the world really works. For his examples, author James Surowiecki ranges across a wide range of subject areas, from finance and economics to computer science to biology. (One example from elsewhere: WalMart prices its goods according to mass perceptions of those goods' value; values which are commonly known are underpriced; those which are not are overpriced.) Surowiecki goes against the conventional wisdom and draws startling conclusions about society, free markets, scientific research, the environment, and even our democratic form of government."@en
  • "While our culture generally trusts experts and distrusts the wisdom of the masses, New Yorker business columnist Surowiecki argues that "under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them.""@en
  • "Looks at the theory that large groups have more collective intelligence than a smaller number of experts, drawing on a wide range of disciplines to offer insight into such topics as politics, business, and the environment."@en
  • "[The author] explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: 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. This seemingly counterintuitive notion has endless and major ramifications for how businesses operate, how knowledge is advanced, how economies are (or should be) organized, and how we live our daily lives.... [He] ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, economic behaviorism, artificial intelligence, military history and political theory to show just how this principle operates in the real world. -Dust jacket."
  • "THE WISDOM OF CROWDS has a deceptively simple and counterintuitive premise: If you want to make a correct decision or solve a problem, large groups of people are smarter than a few experts. This is a book that explains in a completely new way how the world really works. For his examples, author James Surowiecki ranges across a wide range of subject areas, from finance and economics to computer science to biology. (One example from elsewhere: WalMart prices its goods according to mass perceptions of those goods' value; values which are commonly known are underpriced; those which are not are overpriced.) Surowiecki goes against the conventional wisdom and draws startling conclusions about society, free markets, scientific research, the environment, and even our democratic form of government."@en
  • "An analysis of how to understand the workings of the world as it is reflected by groups contends that large groups have more collective intelligence than a smaller number of experts, drawing on a wide range of disciplines to offer insight into such topics as politics, business, and the environment."@en

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