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I like Matt Yglesias's characterization of the financial-reform bill, which finally passed Congress yesterday, as "underrated." While there are a couple of huge issues that the bill barely deals with (or doesn't really touch at all), like the problem of Fannie and Freddie and the undue power of rating agencies in our financial system, it actually does something that reform bills don't always do...
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The Wisdom of Crowds
— published 2004 — 28 editions |
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Best Business Crime Writing of the Year
— published 2002 — 2 editions |
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Omen Das Horror Journal 2
— 2 editions |
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“Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.”
― James Surowiecki
― James Surowiecki
“Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.”
― James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds
― James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds
“The basic idea here is that for most people will power is a limited resource: if we spend lots of energy controlling our impulses in one area, it becomes harder to control our impulses in others. Or, as the psychologist Roy Baumeister puts it, will power is like a muscle: overuse temporarily exhausts it.”
― James Surowiecki
― James Surowiecki
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