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The Wisdom of Crowds.(Book review)
Better decisions lead to better results. But how do we make better decisions? According to a new book, The Wisdom of Crowds by James...
Business Owner, The, 05/01/07 by Surowiecki, James · More from publication -
WHY GOLD?
One of the perks of stardom is the indulgence of unusual requests. Ozzy Osbourne used to require the presence backstage of an ear, nose, and throat...
New Yorker, The, 11/29/04 by James Surowiecki · More from publication -
THE RISK SOCIETY
Hendrik Hertzberg on four more years Philip Gourevitch on the search for a mandate Nancy Franklin on Election Night coverage George W....
New Yorker, The, 11/15/04 by James Surowiecki · More from publication -
MIXED MOTIVES
When Americans are asked to rank professions in terms of honesty and ethics, insurance agents routinely end up near the bottom of the...
New Yorker, The, 11/08/04 by James Surowiecki · More from publication -
FREE AIR
In the late nineties, Washington policymakers took up a noble cause. There was a new technology, digital television, that almost everyone agreed...
New Yorker, The, 10/18/04 by James Surowiecki · More from publication -
GOOD GROOMING
In July, 1994, Michael Eisner, the C.E.O. of the Walt Disney Company, underwent emergency quadruple-bypass surgery. Just before taking him to the...
New Yorker, The, 10/04/04 by James Surowiecki · More from publication -
COME ONE, COME ALL
Why here? This thought must have occurred to the citizens of Boston, Athens, and New York this summer as they saw their cities converted, at great...
New Yorker, The, 09/06/04 by James Surowiecki · More from publication -
AUTOPILOT
Capitalism is supposed to be revolutionary: demolish the old and usher in the new, without regard for tradition or custom. The free market, as Marx...
New Yorker, The, 08/23/04 by James Surowiecki · More from publication -
CASH KILLS
Americans, we're constantly being told, have forgotten how to save. We have two trillion dollars in consumer debt and a national savings rate of...
New Yorker, The, 08/09/04 by James Surowiecki · More from publication -
PAYING TO PLAY
James Surowiecki talks about the economics of choice Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that...
New Yorker, The, 07/12/04 by James Surowiecki · More from publication
