When great minds should not think alike

  • Robert Chote

Published on 29 July 2003

Societies have long experimented with ways to get sensible decisions out of diverse groups of policymakers.

Societies have long experimented with ways to get sensible decisions out of diverse groups of policymakers. In the Apell assembly of Sparta, votes were decided in favour of those shouting loudest, while the legislators of ancient Persia took decisions drunk and ratified them sober.