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I'm currently reading The Best American Magazine Writing 2008 and The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki.
... that may be no better and whose minimal qualifications are that he's not the guy currently in office.
I'm thinking that Wisdom of Crowds might actually be one of the few books that might work as a group read for a group like this, especially since it's not exactly America-centric.
The Wisdom of Crowds scenario is a very difficult thing to apply to elections because it requires certain preconditions. In Galton's original scenario, regular people were given the chance to guesstimate the weight of an ox. The averaged score hit very close to the mark even though most ...
... to express indirectly is "Government is more rational than people." Of course, that kind of thought reminds me to pick The Wisdom of Crowds , by James Surowiecki.
But I'm not assuming that people are rational. Just that they're more rational than government and that the private sector ...
... do not like "the must read" part and I think the 1001 approach is flawed.
I also believe in the "wisdom of crowds" (see The Wisdom of Crowds ). And the LT crowd is a thoughtful, well read crowd so a list of books or authors on the "should read" list would be quite useful.
... Hallie Erminie Rives 2 copies
10. T. Tembarom, Frances Hodgson Burnett 20 copies
N O N F I C T I O N
1. Crowds , Gerald Stanley Lee 1 copy
2. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View, Price Collier 4 copies
3. Zone Policeman 88, Harry A. Franck ...
This market, Intrade , attempts to tap into the wisdom of crowds .
Clinton doesn't do herself any favors when she says stuff like this:
"We need a president who relies not just on words, but on hard work, to get America back to work," Clinton said. "We ...
There is an interesting book, The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki, that makes the point that a large enough crowd of people often make the best decision through "collective wisdom". It would be quite interesting to use members of librarything to create the 1001 best authors list. Those ...
... because chances are, there's someone else who wants to read that kind of review. :) This seems kind of like the theme of The Wisdom of Crowds ...
Took me long enough to finish these...
81. A Farewell to Alms
82. The Wisdom of Crowds
Chugging along...
JC The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
HC A Farewell to Alms: A brief economic history of the world by Gregory Clark
... and want to read more about) and the Dewey Decimal System and its limitations.
In some ways, it reminds me of the Wisdom of Crowds in that it discusses how collective thought is going to change how we interact and view the world.
If you're at all interested in the organization of ...
How come no one has a copy of
Antique Collector's Directory of Period Detail: How to Identify the Key Characteristics, Shapes, and Forms of Period St yles by Deborah Lambert.
It was pubished in 2000 and is a great source for anyone interested in Interior Design. I'll list some of my ...
... of the Buddha): 19 (“Two Kinds of Thought”), 26 (“The Noble Search”), 36 (“Greater Discourse to Saccaka”). Recommended edition: Bhikku Nanamoli (translator), Wisdom Publications. Please note that the translations available on the website www.accesstoinsight.org are decent but ...
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I also bought three little books from Past Times (in honour of my mother):
Mothers and Daughters by Sandra Deeble
My Mother Said - Words of Wit and Wisdom from Mothers to Their Daughters
Mother's Journal - A Book of Memoirs
I read some interesting statistics about Europe in The Wisdom of Crowds about the population changes that are taking place. It seems that one of the after-effects of Modernism/Enlightenment/Consumerism/Pick-your-ism is that the birth rates of the native populations are in dramatic decline. The ...
Ancient Wisdom, Modern World, Ethics for the New Millennium by the Dalai Lama
The Penelopiad} by Margaret Atwood, which I'm enjoying. It's a quick read.
... guy who probably has something to say about innovation and open markets created by government is James Surowiecki in The Wisdom of Crowds . Fascinating stuff.
... the same man as Iain Banks, and it is the latter that writes as Iain M. Banks. The presence of Walking On Glass and The Business on the page of the one-I Ian is attributable only to data entry error; the man who wrote The Haynes Baby Manual definitely didn't also write The Wasp Factory ...
... of Motorcycle Maintenance but that has been taking a back seat after all the business'y' books I have been reading e.g. Wisdom of Crowds , The seven day weekend, Social Intelligence, The World is Flat etc (see business tag in my library). But one book stood out from these "business" ...
