Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the popular business column, "The Financial Page." His work has appeared in a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Artforum, Wired, and Slate. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Smarter Than You @ Inc Magazine (09/01/2005) You say you can't trust anyone to help you run the company? Wrong. Trust everyone
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...
“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.â€Â —H. L. Mencken H. L. Mencken
A year ago it would have been difficult to conceive of an anthology of stories soley devoted to corporate malfeasance. Today, the challenge has been to keep it confined to one volume. From P.J....