Computers in Econ (and in market design)

 The current issue of the journal Œconomia. is devoted to The Computerization of Economics. Computers, Programming, and the Internet in the History of Economics

It includes this surprisingly grumpy-sounding take on market design, particularly on its intersection with game theory:

 Nik-Khah, Edward. "The Closed Market: Platform Design and the Computerization of Economics." Œconomia. History, Methodology, Philosophy 13-3 (2023): 877-905.

Here's a paragraph that caught my eye:

"In his book Who Gets What—And Why, the market designer Alvin Roth pronounced firms such as Google, Amazon, and Uber to be “markets,” proclaiming, “Successful designs depend greatly on the details of the market, including the culture and psychology of the participants” (Roth, 2015). One need not actually find an example of an economist counseling advisees to skip that additional course in game theory and take up cultural anthropology to arrive at the sense that matters had taken a surprising turn: only a decade before one regularly encountered brash claims that all social science worth its salt must be reducible to game theory, with market design cited as evidence for why this must be so (e.g., Binmore, 2004)."

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Here's the table of contents of the issue:

• The Computerization of Economics. Computers, Programming, and the Internet in the History of Economics

  edited by Marcel Boumans, Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, Pierrick Dechaux and Francesco Sergi
  • Marcel Boumans, Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, Pierrick Dechaux and Francesco Sergi
    The Computerization of Economics: Three Lessons for Economics [Full text]
    Introduction to the Special Issue
    L’informatisation des sciences économiques : trois leçons pour les sciences économiques
  • Laetitia Lenel
    The Introduction of the Electronic Computer and the End of Business Forecasting at the NBER [Full text]
    L’introduction de l’ordinateur électronique et la fin des prévisions économiques au NBER
  • Chung-Tang Cheng
    From Computors to Computers: The Early History of Econometric Computation at the University of Cambridge [Full text]
    Des calculateurs aux ordinateurs : à l’aube du calcul économétrique à l’université de Cambridge
  • Pedro G. Duarte and Francesco Sergi
    Computer Operators and Software Engineers at Data Resources Inc. [Full text]
    Opérateurs informatiques et ingénieurs logiciel chez Data Resources Inc.
  • Andrej Svorenčík
    The Role of Computers in the Emergence of Experimental Economics Laboratories: Material Culture and Moral Economy [Full text]
    Le rôle des ordinateurs dans l’essor des laboratoires d’économie expérimentale : culture matérielle et économie morale
  • Béatrice Cherrier, Aurélien Saïdi and Francesco Sergi
    “Write Your Model Almost as You Would on Paper and Dynare Will Take Care of the Rest!” A History of the Dynare Software [Full text]
    « Écrivez votre modèle comme sur papier et Dynare s’occupera du reste ! » Une histoire du logiciel Dynare
  • Julien Gradoz
    The Computer and the Statistician. Computerization and the Mobilization of Scanner Data by National Statistical Institutes for the Construction of Price Indexes [Full text]
    L’informatisation et la mobilisation des données de caisse par les instituts nationaux de statistiques dans la construction des indices de prix
  • Edward Nik-Khah
    The Closed Market: Platform Design and the Computerization of Economics [Full text]
    Le marché clos : la conception des plateformes et l’informatisation des sciences économiques

  • • Symposium on Elisabeth Popp Berman's “Thinking Like an Economist. How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy”

      • Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche and Aurélien Goutsmedt
        Symposium on Elisabeth Popp Berman’s Thinking Like an Economist. How Efficiency Replace Equality in U.S. Public Policy [Full text]
      • Edward Nik-Khah
        RARG Against the Machine [Full text]
      • Thomas Kayzel
        Not Just the Economic Style: Technocratic Ideology and Neoliberalism in US Policymaking [Full text]
      • Diane Coyle
        Automating the Economic Style of Reasoning [Full text]
      • Giulio Zanella
        Shallow and Deep Economic Thinking [Full text]