Export-Oriented Populism: Commodities and Coalitions in Argentina

A Group-Oriented Framework for Coalitions

Coalitions exemplify the fundamental challenge of inducing coherent group behavior from individualistic agent structures. The Collective-Agents (CA) framework rejects the distinction between individual and group deliberation, on a functional basis. Acknowledging that a group does not think using a brain, and an individual brain is not divisible into multiple minds, the CA framework nevertheless...

Inefficient lobbying, populism and oligarchy

This paper analyses the efficiency consequences of lobbying in a production economy with imperfect commitment. We first show that the Pareto efficiency result found for truthful equilibria of common agency games in static exchange economies no longer holds under these more general conditions. We construct a model of pressure groups where the set of efficient truthful common-agency equilibria ha...

Populism in guideline writing.

Populism and Feminism: Odd Bedfellows

In this era of populist insurgency breaking the mold of democratic politics, two movements clashed.They represented opposite sides of the political spectrum, one emancipatory, the other exclusionary. One may be identified as feminism, the other as populism. This essay analyzes both concepts and explores their connection.

How to Develop Export-Oriented Smart Solutions?

Smart card based products are subject to the cryptographic export regulations. Unfortunately, these regulations are often taken into account too late, and it results in export restrictions. We claim that most of the times, these restrictions could be avoided by considering the cryptographic export matters at the earliest design stages. The aim of this paper is to provide a few principles to use...