TY - BOOK AU - Surowiecki, James. TI - The wisdom of crowds: Why the many are smarter than the few SN - 9780349116051 U1 - 338.38 PY - 2005/// CY - London PB - Abaus KW - Consensus (Social sciences) KW - Common good KW - Group decision making N2 - Decisions taken by a large group, even if the individuals within the group aren't smart, are always better than decisions made by small numbers of 'experts'. Surowiecki ranges across several disciplines to show just how this principle operates in the real world and the ramifications of this seemingly simple notion ER -