Infotopia How Many Minds Produce Knowledge

Name: Infotopia How Many Minds Produce Knowledge
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ISBN: 9780195340679

ISBN-10: 0195340671

ISBN-13: 9780195340679

Edition: 2008

Authors: Cass R. Sunstein

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As the dire history of planned economies highlights, small well-informed groups of people will often make far worse decisions than large numbers of people, acting independently, would make. In Infotopia, Cass Sunstein looks at the "wisdom of the many"--particularly as seen on today's Internet--illuminating many new ways of collecting and evaluating information and making effective decisions. Sunstein shows how the on-line efforts of many people coming together help companies, schools, governments, and individuals to amass ever-growing bodies of accurate knowledge. He describes for instance how Wikipedia, through an endless flurry of self-correcting exchanges, collects information on…

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List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/7/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Introduction: Dreams and Nightmares



The (Occasional) Power of Numbers



The Surprising Failures of Deliberating Groups



Four Big Problems



Money, Prices, and Prediction Markets



Many Working Minds: Wikis, Open Source Software, and Blogs



Implications and Reforms Conclusion--Realizing Promises



Prediction Markets


Notes


Index