Roger Myerson
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Roger Myerson
@rbmyerson.bsky.social

Professor at UChicago. Author of Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict (1991).

Roger Bruce Myerson is an American economist and professor at the University of Chicago. He holds the title of the David L. Pearson Distinguished Service Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts in the Harris School of Public Policy, the Griffin Department of Economics, and the College of the University of Chicago. Previously, he held the title The Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor of Economics. In 2007, he was the winner of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel with Leonid Hurwicz and Eric Maskin for "having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory". He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019. .. more

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What can deter a supreme leader from violating the Constitution? Fear that a violation would shock his essential supporters from trusting and supporting him. A constitution can fail if a leader who violated its norms can still get support to retain power.
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The Autocrat's Credibility Problem and Foundations of the Constitutional State on JSTOR
Roger B. Myerson, The Autocrat's Credibility Problem and Foundations of the Constitutional State, The American Political Science Review, Vol. 102, No. 1 (Feb., 2008), pp. 125-139
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My updated article on challenges of AI includes a new section on laws to maintain human responsibility for corporations. The public may have an interest in ensuring that the corporate economy is controlled by people who can be held responsible for their decisions.
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An Economic Perspective on the Potential Challenges of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) has enormous potential to transform our world, for better or worse, in ways that defy our comprehension. But we must try to understand the possible impacts of AI, lest its...
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