| Social Goals and Social Organization: Essays in Memory of Elisha Pazner Contributor(s): Hurwicz, Leonid (Editor), Schmeidler, David (Editor), Sonnenschein, Hugo (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521262046 ISBN-13: 9780521262040 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $133.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 1985 Annotation: Published as a tribute to the memory of Elisha Pazner, this book contains a collection of essays providing a comprehensive view of the design and evaluation of economic mechanisms, written and edited by the major contributors to the field. Amongst the topics included are bargaining theory and the economics of competitive bidding. The surveys are preceded by ?A Perspective?, by Leo Hurwicz which contains a systematic account of the development of the literature on mechanism design, and this provides a context for both the surveys and the six published papers authored or co-authored by Elisha Pazner that complete the book and demonstrate Pazner's interest in and contribution to the study of economic mechanisms. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economics - Theory - Business & Economics | Economic History - Business & Economics | Economics - Microeconomics |
| Dewey: 330.155 |
| LCCN: 85006668 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.60 lbs) 380 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Published as a tribute to the memory of Elisha Pazner, this book contains a collection of essays providing a comprehensive view of the design and evaluation of economic mechanisms, written and edited by the major contributors to the field. Amongst the topics included are bargaining theory and the economics of competitive bidding. The surveys are preceded by 'A Perspective', by Leo Hurwicz which contains a systematic account of the development of the literature on mechanism design, and this provides a context for both the surveys and the six published papers authored or co-authored by Elisha Pazner that complete the book and demonstrate Pazner's interest in and contribution to the study of economic mechanisms. Leonid Hurwitcz is the Nobel Prize Winner 2007 for The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, along with colleagues Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson, for his work on the effectiveness of markets. |