Imperfect Information

The brilliant and courageous scholar Lani Guinier died on January 7 at the age of 71. It just so happens that I was reading her book on meritocracy when I heard the news. In this work, as elsewhere, Guinier considered how American institutions and society could be transformed to…
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I recently came across a paper by Ursina Schaede and Ville Mankki that contains a fascinating empirical finding with major implications for the way in…
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A few years ago, Al Roth published a wonderful book called Who Gets What and Why, that describes in a breezy and informal way the highly technical…
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Back in 2015, when he was still FBI Director, James Comey had this to say about the unavailability of reliable and comprehensive data on the use of…
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While in New York on April 26th, I learned that my father was Covid-positive and in critical condition. His oxygen saturation had fallen to…
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Almost four weeks have elapsed since election day on November 3. The race was called on November 7, and the transition belatedly initiated on November…
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The Santa Fe Institute has just published a new volume called Complexity Economics, which collects together the talks and panel discussions from a…
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Welcome to Imperfect Information by Rajiv Sethi, Professor of Economics at Barnard College, Columbia University, External Professor at the Santa Fe…
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