📢#OutNow in #OA: 'Models in #Microeconomic Theory: Expanded Second Edition (She & He)' by Martin J. Osborne & Ariel Rubinstein.

Part I presents models of an #economic agent, discussing abstract models of preferences, choice, and decision-making under uncertainty, before turning to models of the #consumer, the #producer, and #monopoly. Part II introduces the concept of #equilibrium, beginning, unconventionally, with the models of the jungle and an #economy with indivisible goods, and continuing with models of an exchange economy, equilibrium with rational expectations, and an #economy with asymmetric information. Part III provides an introduction to #gametheory, covering #strategic and extensive #games and the concepts of #Nash #equilibrium and #subgame perfect equilibrium. Part IV gives a taste of the topics of #mechanismdesign, #matching, the #axiomatic analysis of #economic systems, and #socialchoice.

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0361
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0362

That article, "The Web3 Decentralization Debate Is Focused on the Wrong Question," set forth a taxonomy of decentralization, exploring ways that power could be distributed, checked, and shared. It went beyond blockchains and hyperspeculative, Ponzi-prone "#MechanismDesign," prompting me to subtitle my analysis "Not all who #decentralize are #bros":

https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/12/crypto-means-cryptography/#p2p-rides-again

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Alright, let's give this a try #introduction

I am an economic theorist at Berlin School of Econ interested in #mechanismdesign #auctions #pricing #marketdesign #schoolchoice

Soon I will "toot" about papers on behavioral market design and another one on optimal content monetisation in the creator economy.

I hope that this place can foster the field's community like @econd47 over at twitter, and I also hope that the human behind the scholar also shines through at times.

@wistahe I don't know much about #mechanismdesign but I have pre-reform school catchment boundaries for Seattle Public Schools which used strategy proof school choice assignment plan. Anyone write the theory section with me?