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Grant Blakeman read 15 pages in "The Wisdom of Crowds"

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Grant Blakeman added "Nine Stories"

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Grant Blakeman added "Linchpin"

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Grant Blakeman read 12 pages in "The Wisdom of Crowds"

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:24:45 -0600

Quote: The Wisdom of Crowds

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:10:05 -0600

Certainly one interpretation of these scandals is that they were not aberrations but the inevitable by-product of a system that plays to people's worst impulses: greed, cynicism, and selfishness. This argument sounds plausible, if only because capitalist rhetoric so often stresses the virtue of greed and the glories of… "mean business." But this popular image of capitalism bears only slight resemblence to its reality. Over centuries, in fact, the evolution of capitalism has been in the direction of more trust and transparency, and less self-regarding behavior. Not coincidentally, this evolution has brought with it greater productivity and growth.

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Grant Blakeman read 7 pages in "The Wisdom of Crowds"

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:18:38 -0600

Quote: The Wisdom of Crowds

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:16:59 -0600

In fact, a 2001 study… found that in America the people whom inequality bothers the most are the rich. One reason for this is that Americans are far more likely to believe that wealth is the result of initiative and skill, while Europeans are far more likely to attribute it to luck. Americans still think, perhaps inaccurately, of the United States as a relatively mobile society, in which it's possible for a working-class kid to become rich.

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Grant Blakeman read 29 pages in "The Wisdom of Crowds"

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Grant Blakeman read 6 pages in "The Wisdom of Crowds"

Sat, 2 Jan 2010 15:55:43 -0600

Quote: The Wisdom of Crowds

Sat, 2 Jan 2010 15:44:43 -0600

But everything we know about cognition suggests that a small group of people, no matter how intelligent, simply will not be smarter than the larger group. And the best tool for appreciating the collective significance of the information that the intelligence community had gathered was the collective wisdom of the intelligence community. Centralization is not the answer. But aggregation is.

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Grant Blakeman added "The Big Questions"

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Grant Blakeman read 16 pages in "The Wisdom of Crowds"

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Grant Blakeman added "Mitch Epstein"

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Grant Blakeman added "An Honorable Run"

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Grant Blakeman read 6 pages in "The Wisdom of Crowds"

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Grant Blakeman read 12 pages in "The Wisdom of Crowds"

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