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Tag Archives: emergent order
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Parking and Snow
Jeff Ely reports the problem: You dig your car out of the snow, run an errand or two and come back home to discover…someone else has parked in “your” spot! This free rider problem reduces your incentive to dig your … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, economics, education, emergent norms, emergent order, fun, game theory, how-to, micro-institutions, micro-institutions everywhere, norms, politics, weather
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Punctuation Politics – The Curious Case of the Apostrophe
Some of the context is unfamiliar to me as a non-UK reader, but Michael Rosen makes an interesting argument that there is a politics of punctuation: My position is that the apostrophe is on the way out. It’s an inconsistent … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, education, emergent order, grammar, history, language, linguistics, micro-institutions, micro-institutions everywhere, norms, politics, rules
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Walking Paths
I was delighted to discover an example of micro-institutions at work this week right in my own backyard, er, campus. Several of my classes have been held in the Social Psychology building on Duke’s West Campus. Most traffic to this … Continue reading
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Pedestrians
From The Economist, two researchers trying to understand how crowds behave: Imagine that you are French. You are walking along a busy pavement in Paris and another pedestrian is approaching from the opposite direction. A collision will occur unless you … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, culture, emergent order, France, Jamaica, micro-institutions, micro-institutions everywhere, patterns, rationality, rules
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