Browsing Department of Economics by Subject "public goods"

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    • Memetics & Voting: How Nature May Make us Public Spirited 
      Conley, John P.; Wooders, Myrna (Vanderbilt University, 2005)
      We consider the classic puzzle of why people turn out for elections in substantial numbers even though formal analysis strongly suggests that rational agents would not vote. If one assumes that voters do not make systematic ...
    • Privacy, Publicity, and Choice 
      Daughety, Andrew F.; Reinganum, Jennifer F. (Vanderbilt University, 2008)
      We develop and explore a new model of the economics of privacy. Previous work has focused on "privacy of type," wherein an agent privately knows an immutable characteristic. We consider "privacy of action," wherein privacy ...