Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Sunday, February 25, 2024

Mark Satterthwaite interviewed by Sandeep Baliga (video)

›
After listening to this interview with the great Mark Satterthwaite, I now understand the independent origins of the Gibbard-Satterthwaite t...
Friday, December 8, 2023

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...
Sunday, November 26, 2023

Interview with Vernon L. Smith by Sami Al-Suwailem

›
 Here's an interview with Vernon Smith, in which he comments on the history of economics and his place in it. Interview with Vernon L. S...
Sunday, November 19, 2023

Scott Kominers on the history of matching, at Tsinghua, tomorrow

›
 CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture: Scott Kominers "Beginning in Spring 2020, the CMSA began hosting a lecture series on li...
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Ted Groves interviewed by Sandeep Baliga (video)

›
Ted Groves reflects on his career and collaborations, including his famous work with John Ledyard   Optimal allocation of public goods...
Friday, June 16, 2023

Ehud Kalai, interviewed on the past and future of game theory

›
Here's a half-hour video interview of Ehud Kalai,  by Sandeep Baliga, that touches on the history of game theory at Northwestern and els...
Friday, February 10, 2023

Human evolution in the last 12,000 years, in PNAS

›
My loose impression is that, not so long ago, scholars of human evolution discounted recent changes in the human genome, pointing out that m...
Sunday, January 29, 2023

Paul David (1935-2023)

›
 My Stanford colleague Paul David has died. He was an exceptional, iconic economic historian. Gavin Wright has written this obit: Professor ...
Sunday, November 20, 2022

Vacuum-tube valley

›
  Silicon valley didn't transition directly from fruit orchards to silicon chips .  Vacuum tubes took center stage for a while. Here'...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

MEDIEVAL MATCHING MARKETS by Lars Boerner and Daniel Quint

›
 As I'll explain below, here's a long-awaited paper that fully qualifies for that description: MEDIEVAL MATCHING MARKETS by Lars Bo...
Saturday, August 6, 2022

Market design in an historical perspective, by Basshuysen in J. Economic Methodology

›
 I pay some attention to how market design is discussed in the history/sociology of science and methodology/history of thought literatures (...
Friday, December 17, 2021

One Hundred Years of Game Theory: Nobel Symposium in Stockholm

›
  I'm in Stockholm for a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Emile Borel's 1921 paper on Game Theory. It's a three day confe...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Mail order catalogs, downtown department stores, suburban malls, and modern home delivery

›
 Here's a 10 minute video in which I discuss how retail markets have changed over the last century and more, with the invention of mail ...