Mediated truth

Bruno Strulovici (Northwestern University)

Many facts are learned through the intermediation of individuals with special access to information, such as law enforcement officers, employees with a security clearance, or experts with specific knowledge. This paper considers whether societies can learn about such facts when information is costly to acquire, cheap to manipulate, and produced sequentially. The answer is negative under an "asymptotic scarcity" condition pertaining to the amount of evidence available which distinguishes, for example, between reproducible scientific evidence and the evidence generated by a crime.

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Year of publication:	June 14, 2017 ; Very preliminary
Authors:	Strulovici, Bruno
Publisher:	[Evanston, IL] : [Northwestern University, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Center for the Study of Industrial Organization]
Subject:	law enforcement \| herding \| social learning \| investigation \| ethical agent \| monitoring \| Rechtsdurchsetzung \| Law enforcement \| Herdenverhalten \| Herding \| Lernprozess \| Learning process \| Theorie \| Theory \| Unternehmensethik \| Business ethics

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 18 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	CSIO working papers. - Evanston, Ill. : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ZDB-ID 2159956-7. - Vol. #0140]
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/180935 [Handle]
Classification:	B4 - Economic Methodology ; C73 - Stochastic and Dynamic Games ; D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making ; D8 - Information and Uncertainty ; K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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