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

Roger Congleton

No 15-21, Working Papers from Department of Economics, West Virginia University

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: privacy; information sharing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2015-03
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