Dunning-Kruger theory of institutions

Lay theories of social mechanisms

2022-01-19 — 2022-01-19

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The terrible guesses we make about how institutions work.

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Placeholder. I am gathering examples of institutions that demonstrably do not work how we seem to assume, for now.

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2 References

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