False negative statements about people hurt not just them, but society via misallocations. Which is why we let sue for defamation. But false positive statements should cause similar social harm, so why not also allows suits agains them, by bounty hunters? http://www.overcomingbias.com/2019/10/why-not-also-punish-false-praise.html …
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while in the opposite case, where 20,000 economists each suffer 1 cent of reputational harm from a false positive can't be bothered to mobilize the law about paying police theoretically applies to anyone who ever gets a job as a cop in the future, but actually applies to those >
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who are cops today, and that's the group that's going to mobilize. and likewise, the law against slander theoretically applies to anyone who may ever become a victim in the future, but is pushed by the people who are victims of it today i
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