Mechanism Design and Approximation
by Jason D. Hartline
2016
Number of pages: 349
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The text presents the classical theory of economic mechanism design and introduces a new theory of approximation for mechanism design. A central theme will be the tradeoff between optimality and other desirable properties such as simplicity, robustness, computational tractability, and practicality.
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