Collective wisdom : principles and mechanisms /

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Imprint:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Description:1 online resource (422 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11830855
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Other authors / contributors:Landemore, Hélène, 1976- editor.
Elster, Jon, 1940- editor.
ISBN:9781139528290
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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Summary:"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 asking whether many minds can be wiser than one"--
Other form:Print version : Collective wisdom. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107010338