By Mark Wieczorek

This month in Copenhagen, more than 55 international economists, including five Nobel Laureates, will assess more than 50 solutions and assemble a list of priorities for everyone involved in solving the world’s biggest challenges. Will a group of experts come up with a better answer than a handful of experts or a single expert? What about the influence of group think - the kind of collective decision making that led the Kennedy administration to the Bay of Pigs fiasco? Is there wisdom in crowds or are crowds as dangerous as the economists tell us? (more…)