Overall,
mechanism design increases our appreciation of markets, if only by
showing how difficult it is to produce good outcomes while respecting
the constraints that markets must satisfy. In a sense, mechanism design
is to markets what genetic algorithms are to life. Theorists may one
day design a better market mechanism or a better genetic code but for
now the gains will come from using our deeper understanding to gently
improve something that’s already pretty marvelous.
That’s me writing at Reason.
Alex,
I liked your example in the Globe and Mail story this morning making mechanism design “easy as pie.” As someone who thinks about this stuff all the time, I actually used that and similar methods with my own sons. I sold my apartment using a second-price auction (netting much more than the realtor thought I would). Maybe I should write a book called “Using Incentives to Raise Your Kids, Sell Your Home, and …” Nah. Something like that could never sell.
For more, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_spectrum
Have we not returned to valuing observations that were begun by such works as “The Organization and Operation of the Roman Catholic Church in America” (Circa 1870 ?), sometimes cited as the origin of business management studies?
And, what would Adam Ferguson have commented?
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