Institutions for devils

May 1, 2021 — February 28, 2022

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Twin to institutions for angels.

Designing institutions for devils, as opposed to devils, is also a failure mode, I argue. Economic mechanism design experts like to handle the case of selfish sociopaths efficiently. So selfish sociopaths will generally try to change the game.

Is there more stuff to say here?

1 Stop and frisk

TBC

2 Incoming