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Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious
An engaging explanation of the science behind Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling Blink Gerd Gigerenzer is one of the researchers of behavioral intuition responsible for the science behind Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller Blink.… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Intuition, Medical Neuropsychology, Pencil Drawing, Problem Solving
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few
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 --… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Common Good, Mass Behavior
Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction And Economics
With the same originality and astuteness that marked his widely praised Butterfly Economics, Paul Ormerod now examines the “Iron Law of Failure” as it applies to business and government–and explains… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Economic Theory, Evolution (Biology), Failure (Psychology), Theory of Economics
The Long Tail
Brilliant book, 2006 first edition hardback copy with excellent content offering great insight into the next generation of internet revolution & opportunity, fast dispatch, UK SELLER Continue Reading Posted in: Attitudes, Bibliography, Internet Marketing, Marketing, Marketing & Consumer Behavior
Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
The author of the legendary bestseller Influence, social psychologist Robert Cialdini shines a light on effective persuasion and reveals that the secret doesn’t lie in the message itself, but in… Continue Reading Posted in: Consumer Behavior, Language & Grammar, Rhetoric, Words
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don’t
One of Wall Street Journal's Best Ten Works of Nonfiction in 2012 New York Times Bestseller"Not so different in spirit from the way public intellectuals like John Kenneth Galbraith once… Continue Reading Posted in: Bayesian Statistical Decision Theory, Bibliography, History, Sports Encyclopedias, Statistics
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
In this exploration of the complex causes of the wealth and poverty of nations, the answers are found not only in the large forces at work in economies - geography,… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Development & Growth Economics, East And West, Poverty Studies, Waelth
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Investments Mathematics
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