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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gary Drenik is a writer covering AI, analytics and innovation. In his 1841 book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the ...

“The Madness of Crowds” is Ms. Penny’s 17th entry in her intelligent and emotionally powerful series featuring Gamache. Once again, the author has produced a unique work twining moral issues ...

Michael Bond has written a richly detailed article for New Scientist about the psychology and behavior of crowds. Here are some extracts, but you should read the whole thing: The "unruly mob ...

When does the wisdom of crowds give way to the meanness of mobs ... nasty group dynamics and mediocre collaborations. His new book, “You Are Not a Gadget,” is a manifesto against “hive ...

Charlotte, a queen who witnessed the decline of her husband into insanity, now watches the city bearing her name descend into madness ... “It was a book.” But a gun is a book as a banana ...

If you‘ve ever wondered if that familiar phrase, “three‘s a crowd” is an overestimate, the book for you is Charles McKay‘s 1841 classic, “Extraordinary Popular Dilutions and Madness of ...