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Way Quotes by James Surowiecki
- Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.
- Unfortunately, there is something of a flaw in this idealized picture of the way the scientific community discovers truth. And the flaw is that most…
- Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromising. An intelligent group, especially…
- A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.
- Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression.
- The world's central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed by gold. Governments…
- A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is…
- Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most…
- I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets…
- In industries where a lot of competitors are selling the same product - mangoes, gasoline, DVD players - price is the easiest way to distinguish…
- Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in…
- Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to…
- On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves…
- Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the tax revenue pays…
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