, since the very first economic models of the government, it was assumed that the level of knowledge of society, represented …, has always considered sets of individuals with assumed characteristics, namely the level of knowledge, although in an … implicit way in most of the cases. In this sense, an influential approach in Economics assumed that society, as a global set of …

This work, which shall contribute to the Fest "A Just Society: Honouring Joseph Stiglitz", discusses a major unifying …

explain and the stocks of knowledge available in a society, be it individually or collectively. I find that the aggregate … number of knowledge units in a society increases more slowly, the more naive its inhabitants are. I also find that the …In this paper I propose a novel abstract mechanism for the creation and diffusion of knowledge and use an agent based …

become approximate common-knowledge. In contrast, if the agents' observations come from a countably infinite signal space …