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AbstractI consider a generalizarion of Vanderschraaf's correlated conventions to Quasi-Conventions, using the concept of coarse correlated equilibria. I discuss the possibility of improved payoffs and the question of learnability by simple uncoupled learning dynamics. Laboratory experiments are surveyed. The generalization introduces strains of commitment, which can be see from different points of view. I conclude that the strains of commitment preclude using the generalization as a stand-alone definition of convention, but that in certain settings Quasi-Conventions can be important modules within larger true conventions.

Intro -- Title Page -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Media Conventions -- The Talking Candidate -- Back to Basics -- Giving Good Clip -- The Printed Word -- Don't Maintain Radio Silence -- Wired -- Lordly Body Language -- The Clothes Made this Man -- SOCK it to Them in the Media -- Risky Business -- Be It Resolved -- I'm Very, Very Sorry -- The Seven Dollar Solution -- Campaigning Conventions -- The Smell of the Greasepaint -- Wrong Number -- I'll Check the Schedule -- Spare a Cup of Coffee, Then? -- Here's your Hat, What's your Hurry? -- Party Time? -- Take a Letter -- The Bomb Squad -- Safety in Risk Communication -- Spinning the Win -- Future Elections -- Speaking Conventions -- Mastering the Public Platform -- Pirates and Thieves -- Quotable Quotes -- Metaphor and Morse Code -- Put on a Happy Face -- The Common Touch -- Top of the Class -- Gentlemanly Cs -- Need Work -- Let Them Come to Berlin -- Touching the Bases -- The Presidential Tone -- Political Conventions -- Happy 43rd Birthday, America -- The Mouse and the Elephant Go to the Polls -- The State of the Union -- Free Compared to Whom? -- K-E-double N-E-D-Y -- Defining Moments -- The Sixth Floor -- Not Faking It -- All the Way -- He's Tanned, He's Fit, He's Ready -- The Summer of Love and Anarchy-40 Years On -- The Real Comeback Kid -- Dallas Backlash -- You Know He's Right -- The CV Generation -- Governor General Clinton -- Bibliography.

Far from the well-ordered, solemn conference some might think of, the Constitutional Convention of 1787 was filled with disagreements, debates, and near-disasters. Yet, the framers of the Constitution pushed on to save the new nation from falling apart. The result was the remarkable document the United States government still uses as its foundation. Readers of this accessible book, perfect for struggling readers, will learn the story of the convention, who showed up, who didn't, and the final fight for ratification. Historical images shed light on the time period. Fact boxes add further interesting details about this important event.

"Analyzing social processes of quantification has close relationship with the origins, core and potentialities of the economics of convention. Quantification and its social organization and goals are now impacted by the turn toward the market for organizing all human activities. Research should focus on the relationship between generalizing the market, transforming the state and changing the rote and status of quantification. Retracing the main outcomes of the seminal works on quantification, this paper highlights the contributions that EC could provide in that field." (author's abstract)

Analyzing social processes of quantification has close relationship with the origins, core and potentialities of the economics of convention. Quantification and its social organization and goals are now impacted by the turn toward the market for organizing all human activities. Research should focus on the relationship between generalizing the market, transforming the state and changing the role and status of quantification. Retracing the main outcomes of the seminal works on quantification, this paper highlights the contributions that EC could provide in that field.

Standard quantification processes and most often their analysis are derived from statistics' technique and approach. Social conventions are at the core of daily life, practical knowledge and coordination between people; statistical conventions are at the heart of cognitive activities developed by statisticians. What does quantification mean when addressed from the wider point of view of social conventions? This article analyzes the differences between social and statistical conventions. It enlarges the concept of objectivity in having recourse to the lenses of the plurality of worlds as defined by the economics of convention (EC), and to the concept of the informational basis of judgement in justice introduced by Amartya Sen. A wider conception of quantification processes in the social world can thus be elaborated, which opens fresh views on what become, in these processes, the concepts of facts and democracy. (author's abstract)

The article presents the French approach of economics of convention (EC) as a pragmatic institutionalism. It was developed on the one side for the analysis of practices of classifications and quantification. On the other side it was developed for the analysis of multiple logics of economic coordination. The basic concepts of EC are introduced and applied to the analysis of classificatory procedures in markets. The article aims to present EC as an innovative approach for the analysis of markets.