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Here is an op-ed piece that Sunstein wrote recently on the topic...
-- http://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/sunstein-nasa.html

Valdis


On Jan 12, 2004, at 1:50 PM, Reifman, Alan wrote:

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> I have just finished reading the book "Why Societies Need Dissent" by
> University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein, and I would like to
> recommend it to people on the SOCNET discussion list.  Sunstein talks
> extensively about information cascades (a term I first came across in
> Duncan Watts's "Six Degrees") and about a variant he calls
> "reputational cascades."  The idea is that a consensus on some issue
> can spread rapidly through a network, stifling dissent, and thus
> depriving society of potentially useful information and arguments.
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