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Institutions, Biases, and Strategic Ignorance: Essays on Economic Analysis of Law

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Ignorance, norms and instrumental pluralism: Hayekian institutional epistemology

SynthÈse, 2019
Building on Friedrich A. Hayek’s work in social philosophy, the paper gives an account of the central role of ignorance in institutional epistemology. The first part of the paper argues that if individuals involved in the search for knowledge are constitutionally ignorant and guided by norms, as Hayek saw them, they are more likely to attain knowledge ...
Marko-Luka Zubčić
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Institutional Ignorance

Abstract This chapter outlines how the dismantling of China’s public health system from the 1980s to 1990s precipitated the country’s largest HIV outbreak. The Chinese Communist Party reduced public health to a mere moral issue, diminishing its political significance and forcing health bureaucrats to seek revenues independently.
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In pursuit of ignorance: The institutional assault on disinformation and hate speech research

Information Society
Philip M Napoli
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The Politics of Marijuana: Truth Regimes and Institutional Ignorance

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
During the 20th century, Harry Anslinger (1892-1975) waged one of the most successful disinformation campaigns in US history. Anslinger served from 1930-1962 as the founding commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. When Anslinger launched his anti-cannabis crusade in the 1930s most people viewed cannabis as a harmless weed.
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Institutions as Cognitive Niches: A Dynamic of Knowledge and Ignorance

2022
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Ignoring, Forcing and Expecting Simultaneous Events in Electronic Institutions

2008
Norms constitute a powerful coordination mechanism among heterogeneous agents. We propose means to specify open environments regulated using the notions of ignoring, forcing, expecting and sanctioning events and prevention of unwanted states. These notions make explicit and clear the stance of institutions about forbidden and obligatory behaviour.
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Institutional Inertia, Ignorance and Short-Circuit: Cyprus

2019
Due to its financial exposure vis-a-vis Greece and the large size of its own banking sector, Cyprus experienced severe financial turmoil in 2012–2013. The fiscal position of the country had been deteriorating since 2009, but it was only in May 2011 that the country lost market access, until the situation became critical in June 2012 forcing the left ...
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Blindness to risk: why institutional investors ignore the risk of stranded assets *

Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, 2016
ABSTRACTThere has been an apparent resistance amongst mainstream investors to integrate the risk of stranded assets into investment decisions. This paper considers if the structure of the investment chain causes investors to be blind to risks such as stranded assets. This paper considers how the interaction between financial economic theory, regulation
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Why microfinance institutions in Bolivia have virtually ignored savings

Enterprise Development & Microfinance, 2003
The Private Financial Fund is a category of regulated microfinance institution (MFI) in Bolivia that is allowed to accept deposits from the public. This article examines Bolivia's four main regulated MFIs – BancoSol, Caja Los Andes, FIE and Prodem – and finds that they have mobilized few deposits compared to banks, or compared to similar institutions ...
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