Cristina Bicchieri, Norms in the Wild. How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms

Abstract

Since the publication of The Grammar of Society twelve years ago, it is fair to say that Cristina Bicchieri has become possibly the world’s main philosophical specialist on social norms. Her approach has then become increasingly empirical, both in her search for experimental evidence supporting her theory and her interest in real-world phenomena. Norms in the Wild is the result of such developments, as it stems from her work for the World Bank regarding how undesirable social norms such as fe...