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25 Kay (2009).

26 European Committee for Interoperable Systems, “The Court of First Instance’s Judgement in Case T-201/04, Microsoft v. Commission. http://www.ecis.eu/issues/CFI_Microsoft.htm.

27 Kungl. Vetenskaps-Akademien, “Economic Governance,” 12 October 2009, compiled by the Economic Sciences Prize Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2009/ecoadv09.pdf.

28 Acemoglu and Robinson (2008).

29 Schelling (1978).

NOTES TO CHAPTER NINE

1 Stoker (2006).

2 Simon (1984), 40.

3 Coyle and Meier (2009).

4 See for example www.ifs.org/wheredoyoufitin for UK figures: a childless couple earning just £25,000 each have a higher income than 87 percent of the population.

5 “HSBC’s Stephen Green Finds It’s not Easy to Attack Bonuses,”Times Online, 3 March 2009.

6 Cutler, Glaeser, and Norberg (2000).

7 Weale (2009).

8 Coyle (2007).

9 Thaler and Sunstein (2008), Ariely (2008).

10 Winterson (2010).

11 Pew (2009).

12 See for example, “How the House Bill Runs over Grandma,” Investors Business Daily, July 2009. http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=503058, accessed 11 January 2010; and “Palin Paints Picture of Obama Death Panel,” ABC News, 7 August 2009, http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/08/palin-paints-picture-of-obama-death-panel-giving-thumbs-down-to-trig.html. Accessed 11 January 2010.

13 Center for Responsive Politics, http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/index.php#avg; http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/06/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5553408.shtml.

14 “UK Crawls out of Recession,” Financial Times, 27 January 2010.

15 See for example http://www.spectator.co.uk/politics/all/5686658/little-platoons-online.thtml.

16 Coyle and Woolard (2010).

17 Gentzkow (2006).

18 Sen (1999b), Besley et al. (2002).

19 A good source for research is the Internet and Democracy Project at Harvard’s Berman Center, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/internetdemocracy.

20 Miles et al. (2009), Landes (1969).

21 Figures from http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/27/broadband-text-messages-technology-cio-network-data.html. Accessed 11 January 2010.

22 Shirky (2008), Brafman and Beckstrom (2006).

23 See for example Frank (2007).

24 Baker (2010).

25 See for example Sunstein (2007).

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