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On the Political Economy of Privacy: Information Sharing between Friends and Foes

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  • Roger D. Congleton

    (West Virginia University, Department of Economics)

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This paper analyzes the personal demand for privacy and its implications for election-driven public policy. Privacy is multidimensional, which makes the demand for it and its opposite, fame, more complex than it might at first appear. It is also a product of social interactions and technology, and so only partially a matter of personal choice. When a person walks through a village, town, or city, his or her exact location is revealed to every one that sees that person pass by. At this level of analysis, privacy is the joint product of a decision to work through the village undisguised and of the decisions of others to watch and remember what they observe.

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  • Roger D. Congleton, 2015. "On the Political Economy of Privacy: Information Sharing between Friends and Foes," Working Papers 15-21, Department of Economics, West Virginia University.
  • Handle: RePEc:wvu:wpaper:15-21
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    privacy; information sharing;

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