Economic
and Game Theory
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Elon Musk and Me:
An article Newsweek about the concept and benefits of open patents: "open patents could bring monetary gain sooner. 'Even though you only have a share of the market,' Levine says, 'you have a share of a growing market rather than a larger share of a not-growing market.'"
[Posted at 06/06/2018 01:09 AM by David K. Levine 
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How I became an economist:
As told to some fellow UCLA alums
[Posted at 10/09/2017 04:32 AM by David K. Levine ]
Lies and damn lies:
A new essay Confirmatory Bias, the Bayesian Detective and an Inconvenient Truth[Posted at 09/14/2017 01:29 PM by David K. Levine ]
Perilous Populism:
We have a new website about the perils of populism discussing our research on democracy, corruption, lobbying and the behavior of political groups and how it may help.
[Posted at 04/18/2017 05:13 AM by David K. Levine ]
Why Polls Are Wrong:
I do not expect polls or pundits to predict elections. Here is why.
[Posted at 11/10/2016 08:55 AM by David K. Levine ]
Evolution in Action:
An interview with Federico Weinschelbaum about our paper Levine, D. K., S. Modica, F. Weinschelbaum and F. Zurita [2015]: "Evolving to the Impatience Trap: The Example of the Farmer-Sheriff Game," AEJ: Microeconomics, 7: 295-317. In Spanish, English translation from Federico here
[Posted at 08/27/2016 07:55 AM by David K. Levine ]
In Memoriam June 12, 2016 David Backus::
A longtime friend and a great economist. See the Backus webpage for more information.
[Posted at 06/15/2016 08:17 AM by David K. Levine ]
Special Issue of Games and Economic Behavior in Honor of Lloyd Shapley:
The call for papers is out
[Posted at 05/21/2016 01:15 AM by David K. Levine ]
SSRN:
For economists concerned about Elsevier taking over SSRN and wishing to archive their papers in a repository that is indexed by RePEc (and hence Google): you may not be aware that RePEc has an archiving service the Munich Personal RePEc Archive.
[Posted at 05/17/2016 11:52 PM by David K. Levine ]
Reading List on Institutions and History:
The list of books we have been reading in our reading group.
[Posted at 01/25/2016 01:14 AM by David K. Levine ]
