In the past week there have been several additional interesting posts to the class blog. At this point the number of new posts is small enough that we can briefly comment on each of them. There were two posts on game theory. amcoops245 discussed the need to use mixed strategies in playing poker. Poker […]

In a recent post tekhn3 mentioned an interesting auction type that we have not discussed in class. It seems to be a form of an all-pay auction. In an all-pay auction every bidder pays their bid, but only the highest bidder wins the good being sold. Lobbying can be viewed as an all-pay auction as […]

The frequency of posts on our class weblog has grown to about eight per day. We are still reading and enjoying them, and we are grading them. But given the rate at which posts are arriving we will begin commenting on the digest post only on those where we want to add something.
Fifo writes about […]