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    Challenges→Stable institutions with relatively transparent rules are key conditions that help people more closely resemble straightforward economic agents, such that classical game theory finds reliable application to them as entire units

    Transparent rules systematically disadvantage actors with fewer interpretive resources, producing strategic opacity for marginalized agents even within nominally stable institutions—Iris Marion Young's work on structural injustice demonstrates this asymmetry.

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    Interpretive resources(as something marginalized groups have less access to)
    The tools, knowledge, and experience someone has to understand and navigate rules—like knowing how to read fine print, having access to lawyers, or understanding unwritten social codes.
    Iris Marion Young(as a reference to whose work on structural injustice is being cited)
    An American political philosopher who studied how unfair treatment gets built into systems and institutions, rather than just coming from individual people's bad choices.
    Marginalized agents(as those experiencing the disadvantage described)
    People or groups who are pushed to the edges of society and have less power, money, or social standing compared to the mainstream.
    Strategic opacity(as a result of unequal access to interpretive resources)
    When rules or systems are deliberately or effectively kept unclear and hard to understand, making it easier for powerful people to exploit the confusion.

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    asymmetry(Modal logic frame semantics)
    A frame property expressible in hybrid logic by the formula c→□¬◇c, meaning if world x accesses world y, then y does not access x.
    structural injustice(Powers and Faden 2019)
    A condition characterized by unfair patterns of disadvantage, unfair power relations, deprivations in core elements of well-being, and human rights violations, where these elements are mutually reinforcing.

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