Journalist and Author
James Surowiecki is an American journalist who wrote The Financial Page column for The New Yorker and has contributed to publications including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Wired. His 2004 book The Wisdom of Crowds explored how collective intelligence can outperform individual expertise in decision making.
by James Surowiecki
Surowiecki shows that diverse, independent groups often outpredict any single expert. Crowd wisdom works with diversity, independence, and good aggregation, and breaks down without them.
The books James Surowiecki references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Richard Dawkins
Dawkins reframes evolution from the organism's perspective to the gene's. Bodies are survival machines built by genes competing to replicate - a view that transformed modern biology.
Who James draws from, and who draws from James — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.