The wisdom of crowds

In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki exploresa deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few,no matter how brilliant—better at solving problems, fostering innovation, comingto wise decisions, even predicting the future.With boundless erudition and indelightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture,psychology, ant biology, behavioral economics, artificial intelligence, militaryhistory, and politics to show how this simple idea offers important lessons for howwe live our lives, select our leaders, run our companies, and think about our world.