August 2007
Beginner
432 pages
10h 29m
English
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Notes
1Robin Dunbar, cited in Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point (New York: Little, Brown, 2000), 178–181. See also Lila Rajiva, “Minding the Crowd,” Dissident Voice, December 30, 2006.
2Robin Dunbar, “Co‐Evolution of Neo‐Cortex Size, Group Size and Language in Humans,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16 (4): 681–735.
3Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (New York: HarperCollins, 2005), 11–12.
4Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (New York: Dover, 2002).
5Jeremy Bentham, The Works of Jeremy Bentham, vol. 2, Anarchical Fallacies, ed. John Bowring (Edinburgh: Simpkin, Marshal Co., 1843), 493.
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