The Wisdom of Crowds — James Surowiecki — Similar Books & Further Reading

Books, articles, and essays for further reading

• A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice — Herbert Simon
• Theories of Bounded Rationality — Herbert Simon
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds — Charles Mackay
• Markets, Mobs, and Mayhem — Robert Menschel
• Beyond Good and Evil — Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind — Gustave Le Bon
• The Limits of Organization — Kenneth J. Arrow
• Micromotives and Macrobehavior — Thomas C. Schelling
• Smart Mobs — Howard Rheingold
• Emergence — Steven Johnson
• Blind Man’s Bluff — Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew
• The Delphi Method: Techniques and Applications — Harold Linstone and Murray Turoff
• Human Fallibility and Economic Organization — Rajiv Kumar Sah and Joseph E. Stiglitz
• The Seer-Sucker Theory: The Value of Experts in Forecasting — J. Scott Armstrong
• Volume, Volatility, Price, and Profit When All Traders Are Above Average — T Odean
• Administrative Behavior — Herbert J. Simon
• Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition — Ronald S. Burt
• The Tipping Point — Malcolm Gladwell
• The Imitation Factor — Lee Dugatkin
• The Diffusion of Innovations — Everett Rogers
• A Company of Citizens — Brook Manville and Josiah Ober
• Surfing the Edge of Chaos — Richard Pascale, Mark Millemann, and Linda Gioja
• It’s Alive — Christopher Meyer and Stan Davis
• City: Rediscovering the Center — William H. Whyte
• The Strategy of Conflict — Thomas C. Schelling
• Smart Mobs — Howard Rheingold
• The Individual in a Social World — Stanley Milgram
• Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperatio — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
• The Evolution of Cooperation — Robert Axelrod
• The Logic of Human Destiny — Robert Wright
• Choice and Consequence — Thomas Schelling
• The Passions and the Interests — Albert O. Hirschman
• Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph’s Pretty Good Grocery — John Mueller
• The Logic of Collective Action — Mancur Olson
• The Matthew Effect — Robert K. Merton
• The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy — Joel Mokyr
• Why Societies Need Dissent — Cass Sunstein
• The Firm, the Market, and the Law — Ronald Coase
• The Nature of the Firm — Oliver Williamson and Sidney Winter
• The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization — Elton Mayo
• Changing Fortunes: Remaking the Industrial Corporation — Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer, and Frederick Dalzell
• In Search of Excellence — Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman
• Rude Awakening — Maryann Keller
• False Prophets — James Hoopes
• The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production — James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos
• Adaptive Enterprise — Stephan H. Haeckel
• Why Smart Executives Fail — Sydney Finkelstein
• The Synergy Trap — Mark Sirower
• Judgement Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases — Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, and Amos Tversky
• Market Volatility — Robert Shiller
• When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management — Roger Lowenstein
• Irrational Exuberance — Robert Shiller
• From Efficient Markets Theory to Behavioral Finance — Robert Shiller
• Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in Postwar Consumer Culture — Andrew Hurley
• Democracy and Deliberation — James Fishkin
• The Voice of the People: Public Opinion and Democracy — James Fishkin
• Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy — Richard Posner
• Sociologists, Economists, and Democracy — Brian Barry
• What Americans Know About Politics and Why It Matters — Michael Delli Carpini and Scott Keeter
• The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life — Michael Schudson