Signalling: The Unspoken Language We Use Every Day
Not having enough information is a problem.
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7 min readJul 2, 2020
George Akerloff was the first to detail this. In his Nobel-winning paper, The Market for Lemons, he observed that markets with asymmetric information would eventually collapse.
Because only sellers would know the condition of the goods they sold, they could always mask defective…
