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James Surowiecki has 150 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an…
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Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are…
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It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets…
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Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups…
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If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up…
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Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
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Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that…
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But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a…
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Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently…
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This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the…
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The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their…
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One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.
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If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the…
— Peter R. Orszag
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Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.
— Larry Elder
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We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare.
— Rand Paul
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I think regular Iowans are cynical of this whole idea of corporate welfare, with the biggest awards going to the most profitable…
— David F. Swensen
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Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want…
— Gary Hamel
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Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4…
— Barack Obama
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I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals,…
— Paul Ryan
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The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.
— Paul Ryan
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Corporate welfare isn't necessarily a bad thing.
— James Surowiecki
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Far too many well-connected businesses are feeding at the federal trough. By addressing corporate welfare as well as other forms of welfare,…
— Charles Koch
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When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's…
— John Kasich
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