The Wisdom of Crowds

By - Surowiecki James

Floor - Floor 1

Published - Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc, New York, 2005

ISBN 10 - 0385721706

ISBN 13 - 9780385721707

Book Status - 3 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Problem solving

Shelf No - 13

Call Number - 303.3 SUR

Physical Description - xxi, 306 pages ; 21 cm

Notes - Includes new afterword Previous edition: New York : Doubleday, 2004. Published as: The wisdom of crowds : why the many are smarter than the few and how collective wisdom shapes business, economies, societies, and nations

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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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