scholarly journals Bandits in the lab

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1021-1051
Author(s):  
Johannes Hoelzemann ◽  
Nicolas Klein
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Free Riding ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Good Problem

We experimentally implement a dynamic public‐good problem, where the public good in question is the dynamically evolving information about agents' common state of the world. Subjects' behavior is consistent with free‐riding because of strategic concerns. We also find that subjects adopt more complex behaviors than predicted by the welfare‐optimal equilibrium, such as noncut‐off behavior, lonely pioneers, and frequent switches of action.

scholarly journals Transforming the World in Which We Live: Laureate's Transnational Civic Learning Project

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
William M. Plater
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Civic Learning ◽  
The Public ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The World

<p>Higher education serves as an agent of social change that plays a significant role in the development of socially conscious and engaged students. The duty higher education has toward society, the role for-profit educational institutions play in enhancing the public good, and the prospect of making social change an element of these providers’ missions are discussed. Laureate’s Global Citizenship Project is introduced, highlighting the development of the project’s civic engagement rubric and the challenges of assessing civic engagement.</p>

Government With The People

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Henry Tam
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
General Outline ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Parts

This chapter provides a critical introduction to the problem of disengagement between governments and citizens. It looks at different arguments for reforming the scope and approach adopted by the state and explains why the way forward has to be through more effective state-citizen cooperation. It also gives a general outline of the three parts of the book. The first part examines the theoretical background and recent development of state-citizen cooperation to find out why more attention should be given to advance it; how its impact should be judged; and what makes it distinctive and complementary to other proposals on improving democratic governance. The second part reviews policies and strategies that have been tried out in different parts of the world to enable citizens and state institutions to work together in an informed and collaborative manner in defining and pursuing the public good. The final part considers how various underlying barriers to effective state-citizen cooperation can be overcome, with reference to specific case examples.

The Wicked Problem of Scholarly Impact

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 602-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara Behrend ◽  
Richard Landers
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Scholarly Activity ◽  
Wicked Problem ◽  
The Public ◽  
Scholarly Impact ◽  
The World ◽  
Alternative Approaches

Academics sometimes forget that the purpose of a university is to educate: our students, our local communities, each other, and the world. Although each university is unique in its constituency, all share the charge to generate knowledge for the protection and benefit of the public good. The goal of an academic should be to beneficially impact society, broadly defined, with scholarly activity. As editor and columnist for The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, one publication highlighted by the focal article, we applaud the efforts of Aguinis et al. (2017) to put forth alternative approaches to defining impact. Like them, we are concerned that many of the measures of “impact” we currently use do not capture this charge.

scholarly journals Development aid as a global public good – a case study

Competitio ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-97
Author(s):  
Boglárka Horváthné Angyal
Keyword(s):  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
Public Good ◽  
International Aid ◽  
Free Riding ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Global Public Good ◽  
Economic Literature ◽  
The Public ◽  
Jel Classifications

This study introduces a new concept to the analysis of development aid. Aid is regarded as a global public good where donors benefit from the advantages of aid without rivalry and exludability. The public-goodnature of aid is a logical explanation for the deficiencies of the international aid regime, especially the suboptimal supply of aid and the free-riding of donors. The concept of aid as a public good raises the question whether there are any actors who could produce this global public good. The study analyses whether nongovernmental organizations are able to fill this gap in the international aid regime. The model is introduced through a case study: aid in Afghanistan in general, and the activities of the NGO Hungarian Baptist Aid in the country. Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classifications: F590, H410

scholarly journals Classroom Games: Voluntary Provision of a Public Good

1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 209-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles A Holt ◽  
Susan K Laury
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Fund Raising ◽  
Public Goods Game ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
The Public ◽  
Voluntary Provision ◽  
Good Problem

This paper describes a simple public goods game, implemented with playing cards in a classroom setup. Students choose whether to contribute to the provision of a public good in a situation where it is privately optimal not to contribute, but socially optimal to contribute fully. This exercise motivates discussion of altruism, strategies for private fund-raising, and the role of government in resolving the public good problem.

scholarly journals Educating the Commons and Commoning Education: Thinking Radical Education with Radical Technology

2021 ◽  
pp. 117-129
Author(s):  
Grégoire Rousseau ◽  
Nora Sternfeld
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Digital Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
New Models ◽  
Radical Education ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Means Of Production

AbstractAll over the world, education—which could be understood as a universal right and public good—is facing processes of economization and privatization. Technology—which could be understood as a common means of production, collaboratively developed—is taken away from the public and put into corporate hands. This article is designed as a conversation investigating the question of shared and common knowledge from the perspectives of an educator and an engineer, respectively. The dialogue explores necessary convergences in radical practices of commoning, and possible future strategies for education and Open Technology. It asks how new models can challenge the neoliberal agenda and move away from established policies, and how a collective re-appropriation of the means of production could emerge within a post-digital society.

Chelsea Manning as Transformative Truth-Teller

2019 ◽  
pp. 52-80
Author(s):  
Lida Maxwell
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
National Interest ◽  
Normal Functioning ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
The Public ◽  
Don't Ask Don't Tell ◽  
The World ◽  
Truth Teller

The chapter argues for reading Chelsea Manning as a transformative truth-teller. Through close examination of the chat logs between Manning and Adrian Lamo, the chapter argues that we should value rather than dismiss the connections Manning makes between her “private” struggles with Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and her struggles with mandated secrecy of information about government abuses of power in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The chapter reads Manning’s truth-telling, and her connection between public and private, not as simply an attempt to state or reveal facts, but also as an enactment of herself, as a gender nonconforming person and a person resistant to the army’s articulation of the national interest, as a proper speaker and defender of the public good. Yet her leaking aims not to restore institutions to normal functioning, but rather to transform the world so that she and her truths can be seen as significant.

THE EFFECTS OF UNCERTAINTY ON THE VOLUNTARY PRIVATE PROVISION OF IMPURE PUBLIC GOODS

2009 ◽  
Vol 54 (01) ◽  
pp. 61-73
Author(s):  
ILTAE KIM
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Free Riding ◽  
Collective Good ◽  
Private Provision ◽  
The Public ◽  
Voluntary Provision ◽  
Impure Public Goods ◽  
Impure Public Good ◽  
Increase In Risk

This paper examines the effects of uncertainty on an individual's own contribution to the provision of the collective good using an impure public good model. Two types of uncertainty analyzing free-riding behavior are evaluated: (i) uncertainty surrounding the contributions of others to the public characteristic and (ii) uncertainty surrounding the response of others to an individual's own contribution. We extend previous studies by examining both the compensated and uncompensated effects of increases in such risks on the provision of the collective good. We also establish the conditions that are sufficient to determine both compensated and the total, uncompensated effects of an increase in risk on the voluntary provision of the collective good.

scholarly journals Global Civil Society Is Not Utopian, But Feasible: The World After the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Junyuan Peng ◽  
Jing Shi
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Global Civil Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
Transnational Organizations ◽  
Economic Organizations ◽  
The World ◽  
State And Market ◽  
Definition Of

At the beginning of 2020, the COVID-19 Pandemic has swept the world, which raises the awareness of global governance and global civil society. This paper attempts to prove global civil society is feasible and analyses its main functions during the period of resistance of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The paper unfolds in four parts. The First part is a brief introduction to the question this paper tends to address after the COVID-19 Pandemic. After that, it is the definition of civil society. Civil society can be defined as a complementary arena for state and market to ensure common welfare and public good through non-violent, voluntary and bottom-up process. However, this definition encompasses different connotations with the passage of time. In the third part, it states that civil society is inevitably globalized in the challenge of globalization. Quite a number of problems go beyond borders and the reaches of states, which leaves a vacuum for a corresponding force to regulate them. Also, global social movement-the main actor of global civil society, as an important agent, ensures the economy liberalism-embedded transnational economic organizations, as the main structure of global governance, accountable. In addition, the development of convenient communication and value convergence provide the objective conditions for the emergence of global civil society. Global civil society makes transnational organizations accountable, solves problems beyond state borders and ensures the public good and welfare. In a nutshell, global civil society is an indispensable part of today&rsquo;s global governance.

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