James Surowiecki

                   
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Predicting the future - with the power of betting

telegraph.co.uk     Aug 18, 2008          

If you believe the polls, the race for the White House between Barack Obama and John McCain is neck and neck. But if you believe the scientists, Obama is ahead by a whopping 25 per cent. And not only that - without any...                    

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BOOK REVIEW: HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE

dmc.co.uk     Aug 18, 2008          

DMC’s Justin Kirby reviewed Mark Earl’s Herd (How to Change Mass Behaviour by Harnessing our True Nature) for Brand Strategy magazine in June. He found it entertaining but lacking in hard evidence and convincing theory. Under...                    

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Inventing the Future of Management

vellandi.wordpress.com     Aug 17, 2008          

Gary Hamel in late May 2008, gathered together 36 prominent leaders in business and academia to attend Management Lab’s inaugural conference: Inventing the Future of Management. It was structured to address 4 questions and...                    

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I have got to stop noticing interesting books for a while

prometheus6.org     Aug 11, 2008   3 related          

The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs LivesAuthor: Michael Hellerasin: 0465029167Binding: Hardcover List price: $26.00 USD The Permission Problem by James SurowieckiAugust 11,...                    

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More problems with patents

james5.org     Aug 9, 2008          

More on the issues surrounding intellectual property from James Surowiecki in The New Yorker. In the second decade of the twentieth century, it was almost impossible to build an airplane in the United States. That was the...                    

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Patents, Commons & Anti-Commons

goingon.com     Aug 7, 2008   2 related          

Yippee - the criticism of the software patent stupidity is starting to heat up and some really smart people are making both useful arguments about the issues and interesting proposals about the solution. In addition, there are...                    

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The New Yorker: James Surowiecki on the Permission Problem

bloggers4labour.org     Aug 7, 2008          

credit: etech05 James Surowiecki makes the argument that the opportunity costs of intellectual property rows and strict licence regimes are hard to define yet have a huge impact on the productive capacity of an economy. “The...                    

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Bulding smart teams

dzone.com     Aug 7, 2008          

James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds, gave a keynote speech today at the first day of Agile 2008 conference in Toronto. His talk was about how to harness the collective intelligence better and what conditions have...                    

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Secondary Sources: Greenspan, Energy Scarcity, Permission

wsj.com     Aug 5, 2008   2 related          

A roundup of economic news from around the Web. Greenspan on Free Markets: Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan writes in the Financial Times that the current financial crisis shouldn’t hinder competitive markets. “We may not...                    

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It Is What We Make of It

thefischbowl.blogspot.com     Aug 1, 2008          

This is going to be a somewhat eclectic post, with no real insight or conclusion from me (yes, I know, I know), but I think that there are some connections here that perhaps somebody (or even my future self) can make. There...                    

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