false 28752574 644054 68143 0385721706 9780385721707 185 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170686255m/68143.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170686255s/68143.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68143.The_Wisdom_of_Crowds 3.63 1091 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.]]> 38391 3.62 1215 202 2004 3 2 false Mon Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 10:15:20 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 23:37:47 -0700 2008 more...]]>