Social
Mechanisms and Political Economy: When Lobbyists Succeed,
Pollsters Fail and Populists Win, the new blockbuster
by David Levine, Andrea Mattozzi and Salvatore Modica, studies
how special interests such as cartels and lobbyists together
with political parties influence our well-being. Drawing on
existing and ongoing theoretical, empirical, and experimental
research by the authors and others, the book develops a
unified theory of peer pressure and social networks. The
theory is firmly grounded in modern economic and game theory
and is based on incentive constraints, auction theory,
learning theory, and stochastic evolution.
This is the first draft of a work in progress. In the immortal
words of Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Some books leave us free and
some books make us free. This book is for free and is
available at www.dklevine.com.”
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