A SHORT COURSE IN SIGNALING —“Respectfully, I don’t comprehend this literature

A SHORT COURSE IN SIGNALING

—“Respectfully, I don’t comprehend this literature. Can you explain it a bit, Sir. C. Doolittle?”—

Read the articles below in this order:

1 – Signaling Theory

2 – Conspicuous consumption

3 – Signaling in Economics

4 – Virtue Signaling

5 – Purity Spiral

1 – Signalling theory – Wikipedia

Within evolutionary biology, signalling theory is a body of theoretical work examining communication between…

EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory

2 – Conspicuous consumption – Wikipedia

Conspicuous consumption is the spending of money on and the acquiring of luxury goods and services to…

EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption

3 – Signalling (economics) – Wikipedia

In contract theory, signaling (or signalling: see Spelling differences) is the idea that one party (termed the…

EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics)

4 – Virtue signalling – Wikipedia

Virtue signalling is the conspicuous expression of moral values done primarily with the intent of enhancing standing within a social group. The term was first used in signalling theory, to describe any behavior that could be used to signal virtue—especially piety among the religious.[1] Since 2015,…

EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling

5 – The Purity Spiral – Red Gulls

The purity spiral is an obnoxious form of virtue signaling where people actively compete to show that they are…

http://www.redgulls.com/2016/08/17/the-purity-spiral/

REDGULLS.COM

There you go.