Textbooks

• Lessig, L. — Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (2006). Four modalities of regulation: law, norms, markets, architecture.
• Sunstein, C. — Nudge (with Thaler, 2008). How institutional design shapes behavior through defaults and framing.
• Ostrom, E. — Governing the Commons (1990). How communities self-regulate shared resources without central authority.
• Bicchieri, C. — The Grammar of Society: The Nature and Dynamics of Social Norms (2006). Formal theory of how norms emerge, persist, and change.
• Brennan, G., Eriksson, L., Goodin, R. E., & Southwood, N. — Explaining Norms (2013). Philosophical analysis of the nature and function of norms.

Tutorials & Courses

• Regulatory Impact Analysis (OECD) — Framework for evaluating proposed regulations.

Key Concepts

• Norm internalization — when external rules become intrinsic motivation.
• Regulatory capture — when regulators serve the interests of the regulated.
• Code as law — technical architectures that enforce behavioral constraints.
• Normative reasoning — how agents reason about what they ought to do (vs. what they want to do).