Concepts that are informed by game theory and other formal models
Strongly in favour of this.
There are people in academia doing this type of work, a lot of them are economists by training studying sociology and political science. See for example Freaknomics by Stephen Levitt or Daron Acemoglu who recently won a nobel prize. Search keywords: neo-instutionalism, rational choice theory. There are a lot of political science papers on rational choice theory, I haven’t read many of them so I can’t give immediate recommendations.
I’d be happy to join you in your search for existing literature, if that’s a priority for you. Or just generally discuss the stuff. I’m particularly interested in applying rational choice models to how the internet will affect society.
Strongly in favour of this.
There are people in academia doing this type of work, a lot of them are economists by training studying sociology and political science. See for example Freaknomics by Stephen Levitt or Daron Acemoglu who recently won a nobel prize. Search keywords: neo-instutionalism, rational choice theory. There are a lot of political science papers on rational choice theory, I haven’t read many of them so I can’t give immediate recommendations.
I’d be happy to join you in your search for existing literature, if that’s a priority for you. Or just generally discuss the stuff. I’m particularly interested in applying rational choice models to how the internet will affect society.