David Levine's Economic and Game Theory Page

Selten's Game

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This site uses the tools of modern economics and game theory to explore how the interaction of intelligent goal-seeking individuals determines social outcomes. Find out more about game theory.

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Classroom Games: If you are a fan of classroom experiments, you should take a look at Walter Yuan's Walter wrote most of the software for SSEL and CASSEL and with a lot of input from top experimentalists has designed some really good classroom software. [Posted at 04/26/2014 05:58 AM by David K. Levine ]

Review of Acemoglu and Robinson's Why Nations Fail: Can we explain the world by extractive and inclusive political institutions? [Posted at 09/30/2012 12:55 AM by David K. Levine ]

Is Behavioral Economics Doomed?:

Now available everywhere From Openbook Publishers - a new open access book about traditional and behavioral economics. [Posted at 06/20/2012 08:05 AM by David K. Levine ]

Latest papers (more papers, more research, more news)

"Dynamics in the Evolution of Conventions" [05/10/14] (with S. Modica)
"Entertaining Malthus: Bread, Circuses and Economic Growth" [01/20/14] (with L. Wu, R. Dutta and N. Papageorge)
"Learning with Recency Bias" [12/16/13] (with D. Fudenberg)
"Peer Discipline and the Strength of Organizations" [07/20/13] (with S. Modica)
"Conflict, Evolution, Hegemony, and the Power of the State" [04/15/13] (with S. Modica)

Questions about economic or game theory? Try our forum.

General interest material about game theory, including an introductory essay, a reading list, and a forum for questions and answers. You can also find information about the work of Armen A. Alchian, Jack Hirshleifer and other general interest material.