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2001 book by Michael Chwe

Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge is a 2001 non-fiction book by Michael Chwe,^[2] a professor at UCLA.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, said the rational ritual in Chwe's book is an "important idea for designing social media" and included the book in his Mark Zuckerberg book club.^[3] As of 2017, there were 31 editions.^[4]

Overview

Rational Ritual seeks to understand human rituals, including weddings, inaugurations, and political rallies, in terms of common knowledge generation.^{[Notes 1]} In his review of Rational Ritual, Aviad Heifetz wrote, a "fact is common knowledge if everybody knows it" and "everybody knows that everybody knows it".^[5]Rational Ritual argues that one of the purposes of a ritual is to create common knowledge.^{[6][Notes 2]}

Reviews

The book was reviewed in The New York Times,^[7]Economica,^&#