Algorithmic game theory

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1. MaroFeb 2019
   Somewhat related, there's a great book, Twenty Lectures on Algorithmic Game Theory:

     https://www.amazon.com/dp/131662479X
   

   The book is free to download on the author's website, per-chapter, eg. first one:

     https://theory.stanford.edu/~tim/f13/l/l1.pdf
   

   Highly recommended. After reading the first 20 pages I understood why I innately hate buying/selling cars and real-estate in the real world [and why I'd prefer to do it on Ebay].
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2. yomritoyjMay 2014
   There is no standard definition of "Information economics". If you are interested in the economics of the IT industry then apart from Varian's "Information Rules" mentioned in another comment, there is

   * Oz Shy, The Economics of Network Industries.

   If you are interested in research at the interface of economics and theoretical computer science you have:

   * Shoham, Leyton-Brown. Multiagent Systems.

   * Nisan, Roughgarden, Tardos, Vazirani. Algorithmic Game Theory.

   * Cramton, Shoham, Steinberg, Smith. Combinatorial Auctions.

   For the traditional economic theory of asymmetric information among economic agents:

   * Bikchandani, Riley and Hirshleifer. The Analytics of Uncertainty and Information.

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3. wirthjasonAug 2021
   I immediately looked past the header section to the body content snd textbook section and say that the textbook was “Algorithmic Game Theory” by Tim Roughgarden, who I recognize from his Coursera classes on algorithms at Stanford.

   https://www.coursera.org/instructor/~768

   After finally looking at the top to see who the instructor was I was shocked to that it’s Tim — although I should have guessed that, professors often recommend books they wrote. It’s surprising that he moved to Columbia from Stanford. I don’t know anything about computer science academics but I would think Stanford would be a more prestigious snd opportunistic place than Columbia.

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4. mstoehrDec 2008
   I was originally an economics major, but I've managed to switch out into a major in math and a minor in CS (the study of AI was just too seductive). One area of CS theory that is pretty straightforward to pick up for an economist is algorithmic game theory: (http://www.amazon.com/Algorithmic-Game-Theory-Noam-Nisan/dp/...). There are also some strong connections to reinforcement learning and multi-agent systems (indeed much new research in computational economics is focused on multi-agent systems).
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