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"However, the general trend is that where a hospital's overall performance on clinical measures is good, patients seem to rate it highly - and vice versa. "In our article we compare these findings to James Surowiecki's book, The Wisdom of Crowds, about...
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Thank you, but methinks you give the American electorate far too much credit. Anyway, I base my hope on the findings of the book "The Wisdom of Crowds", by James Surowiecki, the premise of which is - "...that a diverse collection of...
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Why didn’t Blockbuster evolve more quickly? ... It was because of what you could call the ‘internal constituency’ problem: the company was full of people who had been there when bricks-and-mortar stores were hugely profitable, and who couldn’t believe that those days were gone for good.
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Surowiecki has taken on the subject of Research In Motion Ltd RIM-T in his latest New Yorker column, arguing that the BlackBerry maker's struggle has less to do with being overtaken by Apple Inc.'s AAPL-Q iPhone and more to do with the consumerization...
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Five years ago, Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry, was one of the most acclaimed technology companies in the world. The BlackBerry dominated the smartphone market, was a staple of the business world, and had helped make texting a mainstream...
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The articles tend to be longer than blog posts and shorter than books, just right for that stolen half hour on the weekend. It’s also likely that most of them won’t be about law — just right for etc. The New Yorker – Private Inequity – James Surowiecki...
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DeLong Smackdown Watch: James Wimberly Enters the List, Armed Cap-a-Pie...
Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal
Long run equilibrium, in which labor supplied, quantity demanded, prices, the number of firms, and firm capital stocks can change but technology cannot. Very long run equilibrium, in which everything can change. So we are not quite a metaphysical as...
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James Kwak recently took his turn at bat, and James Surowiecki clocked a couple swings himself. To their credit, both of them do a halfway decent job describing the private equity model, but neither one can be characterized as a fan. Kwak fears that...
About James Surowiecki
Wikipedia
James Michael Surowiecki IPA: /suɹowɪkiː/ ("soo-ro-wiki") (born 1967) is an American journalist. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes a regular column on business and finance called "The Financial Page". Full Article
