Collective Wisdom: Principles and Mechanisms
Edited By H L Ne L
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hardcover. The contributors to this volume discuss and for the most part challenge whether many minds can be wiser than one. Editor(s): Landemore, Helene; Elster, Jon. Num Pages: 418 pages, 17 b/w illus. 8 tables. BIC Classification: HPK; HPS; JP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 740.
James Madison wrote, 'Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob'. The contributors to this volume discuss and for the most part challenge this claim by considering conditions under which many minds can be wiser than one. With backgrounds in economics, cognitive science, political science, law and history, the authors consider information markets, the internet, jury debates, democratic deliberation and the use of diversity as mechanisms for improving collective decisions. At the same time, they consider voter irrationality and paradoxes of aggregation as possibly undermining the wisdom of groups. Implicitly or explicitly, ... Read more
James Madison wrote, 'Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob'. The contributors to this volume discuss and for the most part challenge this claim by considering conditions under which many minds can be wiser than one. With backgrounds in economics, cognitive science, political science, law and history, the authors consider information markets, the internet, jury debates, democratic deliberation and the use of diversity as mechanisms for improving collective decisions. At the same time, they consider voter irrationality and paradoxes of aggregation as possibly undermining the wisdom of groups. Implicitly or explicitly, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
418
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
418
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107010338
SKU
V9781107010338
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About Edited By H L Ne L
Hélène Landemore is a graduate from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, Sciences Po, Paris, and Harvard University (PhD, 2008). After holding postdoctoral positions at the Collège de France in Paris, Brown University, and MIT, she is now an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. She is the author of Hume: probabilité et choix raisonnable (2004). Her work ... Read more
Reviews for Collective Wisdom: Principles and Mechanisms
“In bringing together essays by students of politics, economics, philosophy, history, and cognitive science – disciplines that have much to say to each other but engage in joint conversation too rarely – Landemore and Elster make a significant contribution. Many of the individual articles are by scholars working at the frontiers of their respective fields. No work on collective intelligence ... Read more