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' No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.& & H. L. Mencken' H. L. Mencken was wrong. In this endlessly fascinating book, 'New Yorker' columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: 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. This seemingly counterintuitive notion has endless and major ramifications for how businesses operate, how knowledge is advanced, how economies are (or should be) organized and how we live our daily lives. With seemingly boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, economic behaviorism, artificial intelligence, military history and political theory to show just how this principle operates in the real world. Despite the sophistication of his arguments, Surowiecki presents them in a wonderfully entertaining manner. The examples he uses are all down-to-earth, surprising, and fun to ponder. Why is the line in which you're standing always the longest? Why is it that you can buy a screw anywhere in the world and it will fit a bolt bought ten-thousand miles away? Why is network television so awful? If you had to meet someone in Paris on a specific day but had no way of contacting them, when and where would you meet? Why are there traffic jams? What's the best way to win money on a game show? Why, when you walk into a convenience store at 2:00 A.M. to buy a quart of orange juice, is it there waiting for you? What do Hollywood mafia movies have to teach us about why corporations exist? 'The Wisdom of Crowds' is a brilliant but accessible biography of an idea, one with important lessons for how we live our lives, select our leaders, conduct our business, and think about our worl

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In this volume, a group of international scholars address issues relating to community wellbeing and the role of politics, law and economics in Europe and Japan in achieving human-centred symbiotic governance. Case-studies and suggestions for reform are presented in the arenas of economy, government administration, management, university governance, health, agriculture, the environment and urban planning.This book will prove a useful tool to those in business research institutes, members of administrative research institutes, NGO's and non-profit organizaions while also providing students

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Pourquoi un si grand nombre de Canadiens ne se sentent pas chez eux dans leur propre pays ? Certains de nos principaux problèmes et controverses politiques ne pourraient-ils pas trouver leur résolution dans une nouvelle forme de dialogue ? Ce sont les questions que développe ici le philosophe politique Charles Blattberg, qui affirme que la voie que nous devrions privilégier aujourd'hui en politique canadienne est la conversation. Selon lui, toutes les formes de dialogue auxquelles nous avons eu recours jusqu'à présent sont inadéquates et seule la conversation permettra des rapprochements réels en cas de conflit et pourra mener à une pleine réalisation du bien commun. Dans cet essai étonnant, Blattberg défend une nouvelle conception de ce qu'est ou devrait être un pays : une communauté de citoyens.

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