ANTONY ANDREWS CONTRIBUTION OF ERIC MASKIN TO THE FIELD OF GAME THEORY MECHANISM DESIGN THEORY MICROECONOMICS 29/10/2014 THIS ESSAY IS SUBMITTED FOR THE REQUIREMENT OF MICROECONOMICS PAPER: 178.713, SEMESTER 2 2014 Professor Eric Maskin was born in New York City on 12 December, 1950. He spent his child and high school years in Alpine, New Jersey. Alpine was a very small town, so he has study his high school in the town of Tenafly. When he was at Tenafly high school he found Mathematics very interesting due to a great Calculus teacher named Francis Piersa. So he continued with Maths major at Harvard. Maskin happen to take some economics courses along with his degree in Mathematics. During his undergraduate studies he happened to attend Kenneth Arrow’s class on information economics, he said “Kenneth Arrow’s class was so inspiring that I decided to change direction. It seemed to me that economics combined the best of both worlds: the rigor of mathematics with the immediate relevance of a social science” (Maskin, 2013a). He continued at Harvard on his master’s and PhD in applied mathematics, but focused on economics. Maskin wrote his dissertation on mechanism design and social welfare on Arrow‟s direction (Maskin, 2008). In 2007, Eric Maskin was awarded Nobel Prize in economics along with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson for laying the fundamentals of mechanism design theory. The origin and the interest in Mechanism design theory comes
As an avid problem solver, I had often been encouraged to take up Mathematics as a degree. However, I find myself engulfed in an increasingly uncertain economic landscape, where even the most intuitive economists cannot prevent suboptimal outcomes. In Mathematics I enjoy the challenge of finding the right answer, but the challenge of finding the right answer where one might not even exist has drawn me towards economics.
The strategic board game Diplomacy focuses on wars, but more importantly the act of negotiating. The players are responsible for forming strategies by both developing and breaking alliances with their competitors. The game is set in Europe during World War I with most teams beginning with similar resources. Each player competes as an either Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Italy, England, France, Russia, or Germany. With at least three home center game pieces on the board, there are strategic movements in order to control one of the eighteen supply centers. This involves phases of negotiation prior to movement of game piece. There is no factor of luck. The main variable in the game is each team’s ability to convince the others to do what they want. The core game strategy is negotiation.
All I ever needed to know about microeconomics I learned from the Hasbro board game Monopoly.
These are the plan(s) by state actors designed to achieve a particular long term aim. It could be aimed at pursuing their own interests at the expense of others leading to conflict or competition.
F. Invent Options for Mutual Gain. Brainstorm options, other than straight salary, that can be explored by the parties:
In this paper, the efficiency of the ultimatum game theory was assessed to resolve water conflicts between agricultural and environmental water needs in Zarrinehroud River Basin, northwest of Iran. Irrigated agriculture and its water needs were to be adjusted in order to mitigate the downstream Lake Urmia drying condition. The great need of food production in the region and in the whole country in one hand, and the worsening environmental impacts due to the drying lake, on the other hand, are clearly conflicting issues.
One of the biggest challenges that we encountered were to determine what course of action to take in case that Pleo gets in the way of another Pleo, or that he has encountered that the other Pleo has caused a blockage on it’s original plan. We therefore had to decide on how we were going to approach this possibility. We then realized that a good way of approaching the issue would be by looking at it from the perspective of game theory. With game theory, we assume that the other team is acting on a rational way, and that the decisions that Pleo was going to make were going to be based on the best possible outcome of this interaction. We compared the possible outcomes against the rubric that was provided to us, and assigned
The trading game was a pretty valuable experience for me. It taught me how the market worked and helped me understand risk. I should have always kept an amount of cash in my account so that I could be more flexible if the situation got worse. I learned how to be disciplined and to reevaluate my position in order to see my mistakes. I
In the big picture, the stock market is not a game. People both have made millions and lost everything on the stock market. Given this The Stock Market Game is a great simulation to a get a slight feel on how the stock market works. This game can be be something very useful for you if this is a topic the intess you. Depending on how much work you put into your stocks is what determines what your going to get out of this. After completing this simulation I can see that there's definitely potential to learn something for the future; you can use this opportunity, with this simulation, to acquire information that could make your money later in life. To truly accomplish this your will need to put in more work than is required for the class. In class
to help by spontaneously offering the working class player a previously purchased piece of property at
What i think abot viedo games is that it can be good for kids to sit back and relax. I play video games my self, i know how much fun they can be. but i also know that too much is not healthy at all. It can be really dangerous. The pro about playing game's is you can learn an teach you quick hand movments, and also enhanes are hand-eye coordination. I agree with that, It lower are stress. Video games is'int really that big of a waste of time The cons on playing video games are that people will sit there and play for to long, they wont ever get ouy side an be active. it's a shame. they wong get their exsircise in or anything. And that's probaly why half of this kid's are over wait.
“One of the most powerful laws in the universe is the law of unintended consequences” (Levitt, S. 2009) This is one of the primarily premises that the book establishes, with an extraordinary sense of humor and interesting data, Steven and Stephen set us in the real economics world, in which the common factors that all the teachers show to their students are applied in such a way that the real job is getting done. The way the authors write all the interesting facts of today´s modern life, including correct and simple explanations, so that anyone can understand all the topics without having doubts of the concepts and of the more difficult topics of economy. The examples they give provide us a fun way of learning, and of
The optimal strategy for player one to pursue would be to defect under any circumstance. If player one were to cooperate, that minimum and maximum return would be one and three respectively. Whereas if player one were to defect the minimum points he or she would earn is two, and the maximum could potentially be four.
The first thing that comes to mind at the mention of Nuclear Warfare is the Cold War between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. These two major global powers fought for dominance on the global stage for what purpose? They fought to ensure that neither side’s values and structures could dominate the world at the cost of the other’s destruction. At its peak, in the 1950s and 1960s, the Cold War represented a way of life for many Americans and Russians. The constant fear and belief that we could be bombed at any second seriously impacted the standards of living in both nations. Comparable to the fear of terrorism in the in the 21st Century, the Cold War dominates the history books during this period of time. At the same time, during the 50’s, in a different field of study, the concept of the prisoner’s dilemma and game theory were being developed. That reason, may explain why this particular dilemma is associated with nuclear decisions.
This is an argument between the conceptuality and the practicality of Nash equilibrium in Economics. To understand it we need to first look into what economics is about, which is the study of social and human interaction and rational decision making quantitatively. Nash equilibrium can act as a tool to provide an insight into such interaction. In the first part of this essay, I am going to evaluate why the statement ‘economics without the concept of Nash equilibrium is conceptually flawed’ is true, by looking into the importance of rationality in economics and the mechanism of the Nash equilibrium. In the second part, I am going to assess why the argument for ‘Economics with the concept of Nash equilibrium is practically useless’ is true