Preface -- General Aspects -- Aggregation and Voting -- Algorithms and Complexity -- Axiomatics -- Behavioral Aspects -- Fair Division -- Implementation -- Interpersonal Relations -- Law -- Matching and Markets -- New Technologies

In Lieu of an Introduction: How I Remember Leonid Hurwicz -- Institution Design: Technical Change and the Decentralization Penalty -- Fundamental Theory of Institutions: a Lecture in Honor of Leo Hurwicz -- The Hurwicz Program, Past and Suggestions for the Future -- Social Networks from a...

The organization of individuals into networks and groups is of fundamental importance in many social and economic interactions. Examples range from networks of personal contacts used to obtain information about job opportunities to the formation of trading partnerships, alliances, cartels, and...

This volume gathers some of the finest and most recent research in economic and political design. Among the authors are several most prominent academics as well as many new and promising researchers. They investigate social choice and electoral systems, auctions, matching, bargaining,...