tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748060798655400108.post764099865487842349..comments2023-11-02T08:55:35.510-07:00Comments on Market Design: Harvey Mansfield on game theoryAl Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02232854038397912604noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748060798655400108.post-15381022765984667062011-06-08T06:19:32.783-07:002011-06-08T06:19:32.783-07:00Indeed, the goal of market design is to accommodat...Indeed, the goal of market design is to accommodate the fact that there will be "calculator[s] and crook[s]", and that others should not be disadvantaged by them. I had the impression Prof Mansfield generally agreed with the statement that man is ultimately imperfectible and that this needed to be taken into account by social institutions.<br /><br />I have a Masters degree in physics and am now in graduate school in economics; the physics I did was far enough removed from experiment that it would better be called math, and while the economics I'm headed toward isn't especially empirical in focus, it may be more scientific in some sense than what I did in physics. Insofar as it's not science, though, it's mathematics -- in some sense, perhaps "too rigorous" to properly be a science.dWjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12072494989829344049noreply@blogger.com