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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..
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A year ago it would have been difficult to conceive of an anthology of stories soley devoted to corporate malfeasance. Today, the challenge has been to keep it confined to one volume. From P.J. O’Rourke’s hilarious “How To Stuff A Wild Enron,” in which he compares trying to understand Enron’s finances to trying to buy an airline ticket at the best price, to Marc Peyser’s’s perceptive look at that American institution, Martha Stewart, to Joe Nocera’s investigation of how it all went wrong, the stories here are sometimes infuriating, often entertaining, and invariably informative. Best Business Crime Writing Of The Year is a report from the front lines of the war zone that has become American business today by some of our most talented and perceptive writers.

Includes:
• “The New Bull Market” by Michael Kinsley from Slate
• “In Praise of Corporate Corruption Boom” by Michael Lewis from Bloomberg News
• “HardBall” by David McClintick from Forbes
• “The Accountants’ War” by Jane Mayer from the New Yorker
• “Enron Debacle Highlights the Trouble With Stock Options” by Thomas Stewart from Business 2.0
• “Investigating ImClone” by Alex Prud’homme from Vanity Fair
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La sabiduría de la multitud o por qué la mayoría siempre es más inteligente que la minoría

En este libro tremendamente fascinante, James Surowiecki, el conocido columnista de la revista TheNew Yorker, explora una idea aparentemente sencilla pero que reviste profundas implicaciones: los grandes colectivos son más inteligentes que la minoría selecta, por brillante que ésta sea, cuando se trata de resolver problemas, promover la innovación, alcanzar decisiones prudentes, e incluso prever el futuro.

Esta noción en apariencia contraria a lo que nos dicta la intuición tiene consecuencias muy importantes en lo que respecta el funcionamiento de las empresas, el progreso del conocimiento, la organización de la economía y nuestro régimen de vida cotidiano. Con una erudición que no parece conocer límites y una prosa estupendamente clara, Surowiecki explora campos tan diversos como la cultura popular, la psicología, el conductismo económico, la inteligencia artificial, la historia militar y la teoría económica, todo ello a fin de demostrar cómo funciona el mencionado principio en el mundo real.

A pesar de que la argumentación es necesariamente compleja, Surowiecki logra presentarla de manera muy amena y los ejemplos que cita son tan realistas como sorprendentes y divertidos. ¿Por qué nos colocamos siempre en la fila de los lentos? ¿Por qué es posible comprar una tuerca en cualquier parte del mundo y que case con el tornillo correspondiente de cualquier otro lugar? ¿Por qué se producen los embotellamientos de tráfico? ¿Cuál es la mejor táctica para ganar dinero en un concurso televisado?

Brillante y accesible, Cien mejor que uno es la biografía de una idea que aporta enseñanzas importantes acerca de nuestra manera de vivir, de elegir a nuestros dirigentes, de gestionar nuestras empresas y de pensar acerca de nuestro mundo.
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Title: The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations.(Audiobook review)
Author: Edmund A. Mennis
Publication:Business Economics (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 41 Issue: 4 Page: 63(2)

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This digital document is an article from Roeper Review, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2007. The length of the article is 705 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Surowiecki, J. (2005). The wisdom of crowds.(Book review)
Author: Alexandra Shiu
Publication:Roeper Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 29 Issue: 5 Page: 57(1)

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