Abstract This article interrogates twelve step practice within Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) from the perspective of Foucault’s later work on governance, truth-telling and subjectivity. Recent critical studies addiction tend to view self-help cultures like that AA related programs as integral parts contemporary power/knowledge complexes, thus agents modern “will knowledge” Foucault often engages wi...

This paper reconsiders the evidence on lying or deception presented in Gneezy (2005, American Economic Review). We argue that Gneezy’s data cannot reject the hypothesis that people are one of two kinds: either a person will never lie, or a person will lie whenever she prefers the outcome obtained by lying over the outcome obtained by telling the truth. This implies that so long as lying induces...

Using a rich data set on Australian college admissions, we show that even in strategically straightforward situations, a non-negligible fraction of applicants adopt strategies that are unambiguously dominated; however, the majority of these ‘mistakes’ are payoff irrelevant. We then propose a new equilibrium solution concept that allows for mistakes. Applying it to a strategy-proof mechanism in ...