The wisdom of crowds

Hardcover • 2004 • English • 1. edition

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

By James Surowiecki

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Decisions take by a large group, even if the individuals within the group aren't smart, are always better than decisions made by small numbers of 'experts'. This seemingly simply notion has endless and major ramifications for how businesses operate, how knowledge is advanced, how economies are (or should be) organised and how nation-states fare. With great erudition, Surowiecki ranges across the disciplines of psychology, economics, statistics and history to show just how this principle operates...Show more

Sociology

ISBN

9780316861731

Publisher

Little, Brown

Published year

2004

Language

English

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1

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The wisdom of crowds

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Hardcover

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