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Collective wisdom : principles and mechanisms / [edited by] Hélène Landemore, Jon Elster

Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource (422 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Landemore, Hélène, 1976- and Elster, Jon, 1940-
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Language Note
English.
Contents
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.
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"--
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ISBN
9781139528290
1139528297
9780511846427 (ebook)
0511846428
9781139525909
1139525905
9780511846427 (electronic bk.)
1139539914
9781139539913
1107228530
9781107228535
1283521970
9781283521970
9786613834423
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9781139530576
9781107630277 (paperback)
1107630274
9781107010338 (hardback)
1107010330
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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