Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Divergent views on behavioral economics: books by Loewenstein and Chater, and Thaler and Imas

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 You could hardly have two more different books on behavioral economics, both by important contributors to the field. Chater and Loewenstein...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Gonzalo Arrieta defends his dissertation

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Gonzalo Arrieta defended his dissertation last week. Here's his job market paper: Procedural Decision-Making In The Face OfComplexity ...
Saturday, April 27, 2024

No Prices No Games! Four Economic Models by Michael Richter and Ariel Rubinstein

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  Here's a new book on economic theory by Richter and Rubinstein. No Prices No Games!  Four Economic Models  by Michael Richter and Ari...
Friday, January 26, 2024

The DOJ on competition for workers

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  A lot of market design is done by regulators, and some of that is done to enforce existing laws.  Here's a report from the Department ...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Banned books

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  The LA Times has the story: Book bans are soaring in U.S. schools, fueled largely by new laws in Republican-led states  by  ALEXANDRA E. P...
Sunday, November 21, 2021

Online and Matching-Based Market Design (forthcoming in 2022), edited by Echenique, Immorlica, and Vazirani

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 What to read in 2022? Here's a teaser... Online and Matching-Based Market Design , forthcoming in 2022 from Cambridge University Press ...
Sunday, December 13, 2020

Milgrom's "Discovering Prices" reviewed in the JEL by Kominers and Teytelboym

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 In the December Journal of Economic Literature: The Parable of the Auctioneer: Complexity in Paul R. Milgrom's Discovering Prices by Sc...
Saturday, March 21, 2020

The Power of Experiments by Mike Luca and Max Bazerman

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New this month from MIT Press, a history and guide to experiments in (mostly) online businesses: The Power of Experiments Decision Mak...
Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Handbook of the Shapley Value

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Google books makes available excerpts from the new Handbook of the Shapley Value edited by Encarnación Algaba, Vito Fragnelli, Joaquín Sá...
Monday, December 23, 2019

"The Ethical Algorithm" by Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth (book talk at Google)

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Here's a talk about " The Ethical Algorithm--The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design " by Michael Kearns and Aaron Ro...
Tuesday, November 26, 2019

The future of economic design: a book of short essays, edited by Laslier, Moulin, Sanver, and . Zwicker

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Here's a new book that I haven't seen yet, except on the internet. There's a long table of contents at the link, and you can cl...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

Is it repugnant to write books for children and young adults that deal explicitly with sex?

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Is it repugnant to write books for teenagers that deal explicitly with sex?  How about for four year olds? From the NY Times: Want Teena...
Saturday, May 20, 2017

Discovering Prices, by Paul Milgrom

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Just published and well worth reading (here's a link at which you can discover its price:) Discovering Prices   --  Auction Design in ...
Friday, September 16, 2016

The Handbook of Experimental Economics, volume 2, edited by John Kagel and Al Roth (forthcoming Sept 27:)

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The Handbook of Experimental Economics, Volume 2 Hardcover –  forthcoming, September 27, 2016 by John H. Kagel (Editor), Alvin E. Roth ...
Sunday, February 7, 2016

Repugnance for money: The Other Paris, by Luc Sante

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Paris is romanticized as the opposite of NY, and poverty as freedom from money, in this review in The Guardian of The Other Paris by Luc S...
Saturday, December 5, 2015

The Handbook of Market Design--now in paperback

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The Handbook of Market Design is now available in paperback: here's what the publisher (Oxford U Press) has to say about it. New in...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Guru Madhavan on economists and engineers

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Guru Madhavan has a new book,  Applied Minds: How Engineers Think . I liked it enough to write a blurb for the cover: “Guru Madhavan not ...