How do mass protests become an organized activist collective? Crowds and Party channels the energies of the riotous crowds who took to the streets in the past five years into an argument for the political party. Rejecting the emphasis on individuals and multitudes, Jodi Dean argues that we need to rethink the collective subject of politics. When crowds appear in spaces unauthor...(展开全部)

【内容简介】 重大决策听谁的?依赖长官或专家，可能会付出高昂代价!专家不敌大家，一言堂不如群言堂!. 我们应该停止对精英的追捧，应当向整个整体(当然也包含那些精英分子)寻求答案和帮助。事实上，很多时候我们都在骑驴找驴。 企图雇用聪明人不会让你误入歧途，但是一心想着雇用最聪明的人却会让你步入深渊。.. 最聪明的群体应该是由那些彼此能够保持独立，并持有各种各样观点的人组成的。独立性并不意味着合理或者公正，你的道理可以是伤风又鼻塞——半通半不通，你的决策也可以是杀猪捅屁股——有点瞎糊弄，但只要你是独立的，群体就会更聪明。 从别人的行为中为你自己的行动找到一些启发是一条通向成功的捷径。...

Inspired by Charles Mackay's 19th-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, William Bernstein engages with mass delusion with the same curiosity and passion, but armed with the latest scientific research that explains the biological, evolutionary and psychosocial roots of human irrationality. Bernstein tells the stories of dramatic re...(展开全部)

Are all film stars linked to Kevin Bacon? Why do the stock markets rise and fall sharply on the strength of a vague rumour? How does gossip spread so quickly? Are we all related through six degrees of separation? There is a growing awareness of the complex networks that pervade modern society. We see them in the rapid growth of the Internet, the ease of global communication, th...(展开全部)

"The market never ceases to befuddle and beguile. These two venerable works are fixtures on the short lists for most valuable books on the securities markets, and investors continue to cherish them." -From the Introduction by Martin S. Fridson Managing Director, Merrill Lynch & Co. Author of Investment Illusions Exploring the sometimes hilarious, sometimes devastating impact of...(展开全部)

In this fascinating tour through cultural, global, economic, and business history, icon of the financial world Robert Menschel explores the phenomenon of crowd psychology and its effects on business and culture. Explaining how crowd psychology creates market bubbles and irrational exuberance, Menschel mines world history—from the rise of the Nazis in Germany, to the fanatical l...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Fear epidemics have plagued people for centuries, and in the past year Americans have weathered anthrax scares, fears of the end of good economic times and fears of terrorism. In his new book, Markets, Mobs & Mayhem: A Modern Look at the Madness of Crowds, Robert Menschel, senior director of the Goldman Sachs Group, shows that, logically, it's "easy to co...(展开全部)

In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant–better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future. With boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across ...(展开全部)

“No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.” —H. L. Mencken H. L. Mencken was wrong. In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications:large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, ...(展开全部)