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112 Yale L.J. 1307 (2002-2003)
Conspiracy Theory

handle is hein.journals/ylr112 and id is 1331 raw text is: Articles
Conspiracy Theory
Neal Kumar Katyalt
CONTENTS
I.  TW  O  VIEW S  OF  CONSPIRACY    ........................................................... 1314
A. The Dangers to Society from Group Behavior........................... 1315
1. Psychological Analysis of Social Identity............................ 1316
a. Polarization and Risk-Taking ....................................... 1318
b. Acting Against Self-Interest .......................................... 1319
c.  D  issuasion .....................................................................132 1
d.  Success   in  Tasks............................................................ 1323
2. Economic Analysis of Specialization of Labor and
Econom   ies  of  Scale.............................................................. 1325
B. The Benefits to Society from Group Behavior ........................... 1328
1.  Inform  ation  Extraction  ........................................................ 1328
2. Physical Evidence and Perpetration Cost ........................... 1333
t Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center. For many helpful insights, I am
grateful to Bruce Ackerman, George Akerlof, Allie Alperovich, Ian Ayres. Rachel Barkow, Sara
Beale, Margaret Blair, Nola Breglio, Dan Capra, John Donahue, George Fletcher, Jeffrey Gordon,
Mitu Gulati, Aaron Haas, Henry Hansmann, Eric Holder, Christine Jolls, Jenia Iontcheva, Dan
Kahan, Sonia Katyal, Mark Kelman, John Langbein, Don Langevoort, David Luban, Anup
Malani, John Manning, Tracey Meares, Daniel Meltzer, Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Monika Moore,
Julie O'Sullivan, Larry Ribstein, Daniel Richman, Roberta Romano, Jeffrey Rosen, Joanna Rosen,
Steve Salop, Mike Seidman, Nikhil Shanbhag, Steven Shavell, Carol Steiker, Kate Stith, Lynn
Stout, Bill Stuntz, Cass Sunstein, Robert Weisberg, and participants at workshops at Fordham
Law School, Georgetown Law Center, Harvard Law School, Northwestern Law School, Stanford
Law School, and University of Virginia Law School. A special debt is owed to Warren Schwartz
for many stimulating conversations on the subject.
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