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The following was copied from Mechanism and Institution Design - Cause Prioritization Wiki. Feel free to edit at will.
Mechanism and institution design is a potential cause area that studies institutions. It has not really been discussed as a cause area in the effective altruism movement, although it is discussed.
https://www.greaterwrong.com/search?q=%22mechanism+design%22
The LessWrong user has a sequence of posts on mechanism design; see https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/6THwih6NrvS4uaHkH/sequence-announcement-introduction-to-mechanism-design and https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/xTvdaCwaeZnePMuX5/mechanism-design-constructing-algorithms-for-strategic
Organizations
- Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute
- The Good Judgment Project
- Behavioural Insights Team: behavioural science consultancy
- Ideas42: behavioural science consultancy
- HyperMind: an organisation focused on wider adoption of prediction markets
- Effective Institutions Project