Economics · Game Theory & Mechanism Design
A topic within Game Theory & Mechanism Design, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Economics.
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Perspectives on Mechanism Design in Economic Theory
Roger B. Myerson · 2007
Surveys mechanism design as reverse game theory, showing how the revelation principle lets a designer characterise every social-choice rule…
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Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
John von Neumann & Oskar Morgenstern · 1944
Founds game theory as a mathematical discipline, formalising expected-utility under risk and solving two-person zero-sum games with the minimax…
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Roger B. Myerson
Surveys mechanism design as reverse game theory, showing how the revelation principle lets a designer characterise every social-choice rule implementable once self-interested agents each hold private information.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copyBen Polak (YaleCourses)
Derives game theory from played examples rather than notation, showing that most strategic mistakes come from failing to put yourself in the other player's position.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copyJohn von Neumann & Oskar Morgenstern
Founds game theory as a mathematical discipline, formalising expected-utility under risk and solving two-person zero-sum games with the minimax theorem before extending the framework to coalitional n-person games.
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