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Social efficiency of entry with market leaders [PDF]

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We offer a new respective to the social efficiency of entry by considering an industry with a quantity setting leader and free entry of followers. We show that whether free entry with a homogeneous product is socially excessive or insufficient depends on
Arijit Mukherjee
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Guilds, Efficiency, and Social Capital: Evidence from German Proto-Industry [PDF]

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This paper analyzes an early modern German economy to test alternative theories about guilds. It finds little evidence to support recent hypotheses arguing that guilds corrected market failures relating to product quality, training, and innovation.
Sheilagh Ogilvie
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The case against efficiency: friction in social media

open access: yesnpj Complexity
Social media platforms frequently prioritize efficiency to maximize ad revenue and user engagement, often sacrificing deliberation, trust, and reflective, purposeful cognitive engagement in the process.
Joshua Garland   +14 more
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A proposal for measuring the benefits of policy-oriented social science research: [PDF]

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This paper addresses the problem of how to measure the benefits of policy-oriented social science research. It argues that social science research promotes economic efficiency in three different ways—it fosters efficiency in the public sector both ...
Park, Donghyun
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Agent-Based Modeling of the El Farol Bar Problem [PDF]

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In this paper, we study the self-coordination problem as demonstrated by the well-known El Farol problem (Arthur, 1994), which has later become what is known as the minority game in the econophysics community.
Shu-Heng Chen, Umberto Gostoli
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Effects of social networks on technical efficiency in smallholder agriculture: The case of cereal producers Tanzania

open access: green, 2015
Elijah Muange   +5 more
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DIMENSIONS AND CHALLENGES OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY [PDF]

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We focused the research spot on the dimensions and challenges of social responsibility,focusing more on issues of how companies, in terms of competition, consumers, employees,community and environment affect the economy.We analyzed and shown how ...
Nicolae Cornel Jucan   +1 more
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