Version history — Keynesian Beauty Contest¶

Current edition: v3 · 2026-09-28 · prime abstraction

Corrections¶

Checking this entry found 1 error, now corrected: against its sources, or where it contradicted itself or its arithmetic did not hold. It is listed here so a reader can see what changed. How references were checked.

2026-08-30 · Factual correction. Recommended showing share counts and runoff voting as remedies for herding; both are counter-productive in their own literatures.

Editions¶

Version	Date	Change	What changed
v3	2026-09-28	A single footnote that bundled five works was split into five, one each for Shleifer and Vishny (1997), Wolfers and Zitzewitz (2004), Goldin and Rouse (2000), Salganik, Dodds and Watts (2006), and Bouton and Gratton (2015); the sentence on the intervention levers now cites all five.	prose — detailed body (prose edited)
v2	2026-08-30	claim remediation: a claim the located sources contradict, corrected in prose	prose — detailed body (prose edited)
v1	2026-08-24	First published edition.	first published edition

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