In the past years, network theory has successfully characterized the interaction among the
constituents of a variety of complex systems, ranging from biological to technological, and …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the games that are two-sided matching markets.
The phrase two-sided refers to the fact that agents in such markets belong, from the outset …

Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the
future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change …

Game theory, the formalized study of strategy, began in the 1940s by asking how
emotionless geniuses should play games, but ignored until recently how average people …

Case Study Research: Principles and Practices aims to provide a general understanding of
the case study method as well as specific tools for its successful implementation. These tools …

This book is an ambitious effort by three well-known and well-respected scholars to fill an
acknowledged void in the literature—a text covering the burgeoning field of empirical …

I assume multiple types of players--“rational egoists,” as well as “conditional cooperators”
and “willing punishers”--in models of nonmarket behavior. I use an indirect evolutionary …

We demonstrate that a simple model, constructed on the premise that people are motivated
by both their pecuniary payoff and their relative payoff standing, organizes a large and …

This book represents a considerable revision and expansion of Public Choice II (1989). As
in the previous additions, all of the major topics of public choice are covered. These include …

The thesis of this interesting and provocative book is that modern civilization is largely
distinguished by its successful efforts first to understand and then to control risk. These …