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• Background Note | HBS Case Collection | March 2018 (Revised July 2020)

  Short Note on Game Theory

  Eric Van den Steen and Dennis Yao

  This note provides a very concise (2 page) introduction to game theory.

  Keywords: competitive interaction; commitment; Game Theory; Competitive Strategy;

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  Van den Steen, Eric, and Dennis Yao. "Short Note on Game Theory." Harvard Business School Background Note 718-509, March 2018. (Revised July 2020.)  View Details

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• Technical Note | HBS Case Collection | January 2018 (Revised July 2020)

  Short Note on Relative Cost Analysis

  Eric Van den Steen and Dennis Yao

  This note provides a very concise (2 page) introduction to relative cost analysis, with a simple example.

  Keywords: relative cost analysis; Cost; Analysis;

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  Van den Steen, Eric, and Dennis Yao. "Short Note on Relative Cost Analysis." Harvard Business School Technical Note 718-485, January 2018. (Revised July 2020.)  View Details

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• Article | Law, Culture and the Humanities | June 2020

  Informing Dissent

  Hillary Greene and Dennis Yao

  The first part of this commentary argues that because the production of dissent depends on the availability of information, greater attention should focus on government restrictions on access to official information. At no time is this more important than when information is monopolized by the government. If not constrained, government’s monopoly control of information, combined with its incentives to shape support for its policies, may at some times and in some ways reduce dissent. In the second part of the commentary, a cost-benefit approach is proposed to analyze an individual’s incentives to produce speech and is then applied to assess the role social communities play vis-à-vis individual dissent. This analysis underscores the important and complex (sometimes encouraging, sometimes discouraging) role that communities play in the generation of dissent. Our analysis uses economic tools, often accompanied by an antitrust perspective, to better understand the implications of government information control and social pressures upon speech and dissent.

  Keywords: dissent; information monopoly; economics of speech; Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); self-censorship; social pressure; Information; Government and Politics; Spoken Communication; Society;

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  Greene, Hillary, and Dennis Yao. "Informing Dissent." Law, Culture and the Humanities 16, no. 2 (June 2020): 200–212.  View Details

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