Author: James Surowiecki
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: crowds, wisdom
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-08-16
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0385721706
ISBN-13: 9780385721707
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, se
Author: Elias Canetti
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: power, crowds
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 1984-04-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0374518203
ISBN-13: 9780374518202
Crowds and Power is a revolutionary work in which Elias Canetti finds a new way of looking at human history and psychology. Breathtaking in its range and erudition, it explores Shiite festivals and the English Civil war, the finger exercises of monkeys and the effects of inflation in Weimar Germany. In this study of the interplay of crowds, Canetti offers one of the most profound and startling portraits of the human condition.
Author: Charles MacKay
Publisher: Harriman House
Keywords: crowds, madness, delusions, popular, extraordinary
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2003-12
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 1897597320
ISBN-13: 9781897597323
First published in 1841, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is often cited as the best book ever written about market psychology. This Harriman House edition includes Charles Mackay’s account of the three infamous financial manias - John Law s Mississipi Scheme, the South Sea Bubble, and Tulipomania. Between the three of them, these historic episodes confirm that greed and fear have always been the driving forces of financial markets, and, furthermore, that being sensible and clever is no defence against the mesmeric allure of a popular craze with the wind behin
Author: Charles MacKay
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Keywords: crowds, madness, delusions, popular, extraordinary
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2009-03-26
List price: $7.49
ISBN-10: 1604594411
ISBN-13: 9781604594416
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a history of popular folly by Charles Mackay. The book chronicles its targets in three parts: "National Delusions," "Peculiar Follies," and "Philosophical Delusions." Learn why intelligent people do amazingly stupid things when caught up in speculative edevorse. The subjects of Mackay’s debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics and religion on), witch-hunts, crusades and duels. Present day writers on economics, such as Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles.
Author: Charles Mackay
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: madness, crowds, delusions, popular, extraordinary, memoirs
Number of Pages: 732
Published: 2008-12-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 160520546X
ISBN-13: 9781605205465
In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit... -from the Preface The satanic child-abuse mania of the 1980s. The dotcom craze of the 1990s. The housing bubble of the 2000s. It may seem like we today invented mass insanity, but it’s always been with us, as this classic expose of the madness of humanity demonstrates in a way that’s both
Authors:Barry Libert, Jon Spector,
Publisher: Wharton School Publishing
Keywords: business, crowds, power, unleash, smarter
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-10-05
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0132244799
ISBN-13: 9780132244794
Wikinomics and The Wisdom of Crowds identified the phenomena of emerging social networks, but they do not confront how businesses can profit from the wisdom of crowds. WE ARE SMARTER THAN ME by Barry Libert and Jon Spector, Foreword by Wikinomics author Don Tapscott, is the first book to show anyone in business how to profit from the wisdom of crowds. Drawing on their own research and the insights from an enormous community of more than 4,000 people, Barry Libert and Jon Spector have written a book that reveals what works, and what doesn’t, when you are building community into your decis
Author: Robert Menschel
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: madness, crowds, modern, mayhem, mobs, markets
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-08-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0471233277
ISBN-13: 9780471233275
"Its easy to understand the excesses of the 90s by reading Bob Menschels captivating, well-written history of the ways investors have been victimized by greed, folly, and chicanery. This is a fascinating chronicle of improbable manias that set off frenzied and thoughtless buying." —Arthur Levitt, former chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission "This books light-hearted, level-headed insights may be directed at the business world, but they ring equally true for government and public officials. Robert Menschel gives a valuable perspective on the power of the crowd." —Senator Charles
