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Collective wisdom : principles and mechanisms /

"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"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Landemore, Hélène, 1976- (Editor ), Elster, Jon, 1940- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Collective wisdom: old and new / Hélène Landemore
  • 1. Prediction markets: trading uncertainty for collective wisdom / Emile Servan-Schreiber
  • 2. Designing wisdom through the web: reputation and the passion of ranking / Gloria Origgi
  • 3. Some microfoundations of collective wisdom / Lu Hong and Scott E. Page
  • 4. What has collective wisdom to do with wisdom? / Daniel Andler
  • 5. Legislation, planning, and deliberation / John Ferejohn
  • 6. Epistemic democracy in classical athens: sophistication, diversity, and innovation / Josiah Ober
  • 7. The optimal design of a constituent assembly / Jon Elster
  • 8. Reasons and preferences in medicine evaluation committees / Philippe Urfalino
  • 9. . Collective wisdom: lessons from the theory of judgment aggregation / Christian List
  • 10. Democracy counts: should rulers be numerous? / David Estlund
  • 11. Democratic reason: the mechanisms of collective intelligence in politics / Hélène Landemore
  • 12. Rational ignorance and beyond / Gerry Mackie
  • 13. The myth of the rational voter and political theory / Bryan Caplan
  • 14. Collective wisdom and institutional design / Adrian Vermeule
  • 15. Reasoning as a social competence / Dan Sperber and Hugo Mercier
  • Conclusion / Jon Elster.