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Can society function without ethical agents? An informational perspective

Many facts are learned through the intermediation of individuals with special access to information, such as law enforcement officers, officials with a security clearance, or experts with specific knowledge. This paper considers whether societies can learn about such facts when information is cheap to manipulate, produced sequentially, and these individuals are devoid of ethical motive. The answer depends on an "information attrition" condition pertaining to the amount of evidence available which distinguishes, for example, between reproducible scientific evidence and the evidence generated in a crime. Applications to institution enforcement, social cohesion, scientific progress, and historical revisionism are discussed.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CSIO Working Paper ; No. 0149

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Mediated Learning
Information Attrition
Institution Design
Fake News

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Strulovici, Bruno
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Northwestern University, Center for the Study of Industrial Organization (CSIO)
(wo)
Evanston, IL
(wann)
2020

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Strulovici, Bruno
  • Northwestern University, Center for the Study of Industrial Organization (CSIO)

Entstanden

  • 2020

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