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136 quotes by James Surowiecki

James M. Surowiecki Surowiecki speaking in March 2014 Born April 30, 1967 (1967-04-30) (age 47) Meriden, Connecticut, U.S. Nationality American Occupation Journalist James Michael Surowiecki (/ˌsʊəroʊˈwɪkiː/ SOOR-oh-WIK-ee; born April 30, 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".
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By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred... →

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All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.

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Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of... →

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In a world where companies increasingly know about their business in real time, it makes no sense that public reporting mostly follows the old... →

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Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low... →

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Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures... →

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Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players... →

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The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research - yet... →

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The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of... →

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A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're... →

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A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government... →

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Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for... →

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In terms of productivity - that is, how much a worker produces in an hour - there's little difference between the U.S., France, and Germany. But... →

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