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James Surowiecki

James Surowiecki (born 1967) is an American journalist. He is staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes a regular column on business and finance.

Surowiecki's writing has appeared in a wide range of publications, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Artforum , Wired, and Slate. Before joining The New Yorker, he wrote “The Bottom Line” column for New York and was a contributing editor at Fortune.

In 2002, Surowiecki edited an anthology, Best Business Crime Fighting of the Year, a collection of articles from different business news sources that chronicle the fall from grace of various CEOs. In 2004, he published The Wisdom of Crowds, in which he argued that the many are smarter than the few and that collective wisdom shapes business, economies, societies and nations.

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