Mediated truth

Arbeitspapier

Many facts are learned through the intermediation of individuals with special access to information, such as law enforcement officers, employees with a security clearance, or experts with specific knowledge. This paper considers whether societies can learn about such facts when information is costly to acquire, cheap to manipulate, and produced sequentially. The answer is negative under an "asymptotic scarcity" condition pertaining to the amount of evidence available which distinguishes, for example, between reproducible scientific evidence and the evidence generated by a crime.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: CSIO Working Paper ; No. 0140

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games; Repeated Games ; Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
• Thema: law enforcement ; herding ; social learning ; investigation ; ethical agent ; monitoring

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Strulovici, Bruno
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Northwestern University, Center for the Study of Industrial Organization (CSIO)
• (wo): Evanston, IL
• (wann): 2017

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/180935
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ