Local Historian

Some personal touches to hospitality at the INET conference, although I feel for the people who have been holding that sign all day.

In his opening remarks, Robert Johnson said that this “is not the institute of anything goes” with INET now getting to a point where it needs to stop criticising the mainstream and should instead “create a new vision.”

One of the new things at this year’s INET is a way to look at the psychology of agents, namely Rene Girard’s theory of ‘mimetic’ preferences, or rather that one consumer copies another’s preferences in order to keep up socially.