Stardom and Talent

By Moshe Adler. 1985

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How algorithmic popularity bias hinders or promotes quality (2017, methodology): “sic tracks, videos, books, fashion products, or links to news articles. Items are selected sequentially at discrete times. Each item ihas an intrinsic quality value q i drawn uniformly at random from [0;1]. Quality is operationally dened as the probability that an item is selected by a user when not”
Getting What You Need: How Reputation and Status Affect Team Performance, Hiring, and Salaries in the NBA (2013, background): “Finally, this article contributes to the economic literature on “superstars,” which argues (see, for example, Adler [1985]) that income is distributed disproportionately to some individuals even when their level of talent is the same as that of others.”
Cumulative Advantage as a Mechanism for Inequality: A Review of Theoretical and Empirical Developments (2006, background): “Another example is Adlers (1997) model of "stars," which shows how information costs and network e¤ects would in contrast with Rosens model produce stars in the entertainment industry and other markets even if talent levels were constant in the population.”
From the functions of music to music preference (2009, background): “Other researchers have provided further evidence for the impact of social influences (Adler, 1985; Salganik, Dodds, & Watts, 2006) and affective experiences (e.g., Blood & Zatorre, Psychology of Music Psychology of Music Copyright © 2009 Society for Education, Music, and Psychology Research vol…”
Talent and/or Popularity: What Does It Take to Be a Superstar? (2012, unknown): “Both Rosen (1981) and Adler (1985) agree that superstars provide services of superior perceived quality. But according to Rosen (1981), the star’s talent alone determines the perceived quality. Adler (1985) argues that factors other than talent, like popularity, matter too.”
ARTISTS' CAREERS AND THEIR LABOR MARKETS (2006, background): “A related theory is found in the literature on the earnings of superstars [Rosen (1981); Adler (1985)]. The predicted effects of this theory on labor supply are more prominent in Frank and Cook (1995); they refer to superstar labor markets as “winner-take-all markets”.”
The Power of Stars: Do Star Actors Drive the Success of Movies? (2007, background): “Further research could explore each of these aspects, thus advancing knowledge on the origins of stardom (e.g., Adler 1985; Rosen 1981).”
Private Firm, Public Corporation or Member's Association Governance Structures in European Football (2010, unknown): “Adler (1985) has advanced this “connoisseur theory” arguing that the utility of a con-noisseur does not only depend on its own past consumption, but also on the sum of co-specific consumption capital acquired by all fellow connoisseurs, with whom he can exchange views and enjoy interaction.”
Limited individual attention and online virality of low-quality information (2017, background): “Adler [1] has shown that simple rationality arguments based on the cost of learning about quality will lead to “stars” with disproportionate popularity even in the absence of differences in”
Web-based experiments for the study of collective social dynamics in cultural markets (2009, unknown): “Second, in cultural markets, people may benefit from coordinating their choices with others (Adler, 1985); that is, by listening to, reading, or watching the same things, friends, and even strangers, construct common points of interest around which they can interact, thereby fostering notions of…”
An Economic Analysis of the Use of Citations in the Law (2000, background): “…who became his followers and transmitted his influence through their own writings.6 A point closely related to the last is that differences in citation rates may be magnified because of the information costs of citers, which may fall with the number of times a work is cited (cf. Adler, 1985).”