The wisdom of crowds - James Surowiecki

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.