Wisdom of Crowds (Record no. 221325)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0316861731
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Transcribing agency AL
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition number 23
Classification number 303.38
Item number SURW
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Personal name James Surowiecki
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9 (RLIN) 14561
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Wisdom of Crowds
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Great Britain
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Little Brown
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2004
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxi,265 p.
Other physical details HB
Dimensions 22x14 cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 16.99
Currency code £
Unit of pricing 16.99
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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.<br/>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. <br/>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?<br/>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 world.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Social Sciences
9 (RLIN) 14562
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Common Good
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Group Decision Making
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Personal name SUROWIECKI (James)
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Sociology St Aloysius Library St Aloysius Library 03/24/2013   303.38 SURW GF02266 01/24/2022 01/24/2022 George Fernandes Collections