The Wisdom of Crowds

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.

• The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life
• Markets, Mobs, and Mayhem: A Modern Look at the Madness of Crowds
• The Future of Management
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
• Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
• Paradox of Choice, The
• The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)
• Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction