World Watch - February 6, 2005 - Does Democracy Really Work? - The Ornery American
Well-known author Orson Scott Card looks at The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations by James Surowiecki, a business writer for The New Yorker; with a side mention of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel. It's a longish essay, but with meat and intelligence to it, and it contains interesting historical background. The link is to the World Watch column at ornery.org.
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