Self-Government

Self-Government in Our Times¤

The eighteenth century conception of democracy as a system of self-government was based on an assumption that rendered it unrealistic and incoherent, namely, that interests and values are su¢ciently harmonious so that each individual needs to obey only oneself while living under laws chosen by all. When faced with the reality of political parties, theorists of democracy recognized that some int...

Government and self-government in in the information society

Research on the information society and the policies and strategies for its creation has tended to discuss them rationally as the national, and occasionally international or regional, responses to changes in the competitive environment. The predominant notion of the information society in various levels of governance has only rarely been critically examined. The paper provides a Foucauldian ana...

Government guarantees and self-fulfilling speculative attacks

This paper explores the role played by government guarantees to banks’ foreign creditors as a root cause of self-fulfilling twin banking-currency crises. We develop a general equilibrium model in which such guarantees lead to these types of crises. Absent government guarantees, such crises are not possible. The model has three key properties. First, in the presence of government guarantees bank...

Government Guarantees and Self-FulÞlling Speculative Attacks

Artificial intelligence and rational self-government

Using notions from logic and economics, we formulate and formalize the notion of rational self-government, in which the agent reflects on its circumstances, abilities, and limitations to rationally guide its own reasoning and internal organization, in addition to its external actions. This research was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DOD), ARPA Order No. 4976, Amendm...