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Mechanism Design and Approximation

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Synopsis: The text Mechanism Design and Approximation is based on a graduate course that has been developed at Northwestern over the past two decades. It presents the classical theory of economic mechanism design and introduces a new theory of approximation for mechanism design. Manuscript: [chapters 1-8.pdf] [chapter 10 coming soon; material from Bayesian Mechanism Design survey; chapters 7] The reader may download and make one copy of the text for personal use only, and not for further distribution or posting elsewhere. You may link to this page: http://jasonhartline.com/MDnA/. News: Excerpt from Chapter 1: [ch1.pdf] Our world is an interconnected collection of economic and computational systems. Within such a system, individuals optimize their actions to achieve their own, perhaps selfish, goals; and the system combines these actions with its basic laws to produce an outcome. Some of these systems perform well, e.g., the national residency matching program which assigns medical stud

Mechanism Design and Approximation Mechanism Design and Approximation By Jason D. Hartline Copyright © 2011-2025 Synopsis: The text Mechanism Design and Approximation is based on a graduate course that has been developed at Northwestern over the past two decades. It presents the classical theory of economic mechanism design and introduces a new theory of approximation for mechanism design. Picasso's Bull, December 1945 -- January 1946. Manuscript: [chapters 1-8.pdf] [chapter 10 coming soon; material from Bayesian Mechanism Design survey; chapters 7] The reader may download and make one co

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