The Economic Science Laboratory (ESL) at the University of Arizona was founded in 1985. The Director of ESL from 1985 to 2001 was Vernon L. Smith, 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics. Since its inception, the ESL has been a leading laboratory in the study of economic behavior and market performance. Research covers many aspects of economic decision-making, strategic behavior, and performance of market institutions. ESL research is consistently supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and is published in leading journals in economics, game theory, econometrics, management science, finance, and accounting.

This is a still very preliminary update of the page I will now display at stanford... but I'm making a start. It's been a while since I comprehensively updated this page, but I've kept updating my Market Design Blog. You can find my latest updates by searching for 2/9/16 on this page; they mostly concern organ donations and medical matches. I am the Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics at Stanford (and the Gund Professor Emeritus of Economics and Business Administration at Harvard). Right after moving to Stanford I shared the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. My research is in game theory, experimental economics, and market design (for which game theory, experimentation, and computation are complementary tools).

This site uses the tools of modern economics and game theory to explore how the interaction of intelligent goal-seeking individuals determines social outcomes. By David K. Levine, Department of Economics and Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Study Joint Chair at the European University Institute. He is also John H. Biggs Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis.

Game theory can be of considerable use to evolutionary biologists, especially behaviorists. Originally developed as a tool to predict rational human economic behavior, it has been successfully applied to many evolutionary problems. Game theory is useful in understanding situations where the fitness consequences of an individual's behavior depends in part on the types and frequencies of behaviors exhibited by other animals in the population. This site provides an introduction to evolutionary game theory. It is aimed primarily at undergraduates with a serious interest in animal behavior and evolution. I have tried to make the material accessible to any student with a good facility in algebra. Portions of the site dealing with the "war of attrition" do contain some calculus but I have taken care to explain the calculations in detail for students who have not yet studied calculus. By John Maynard Smith.

This book presents a unified treatment of many different kinds of planning algorithms. The subject lies at the crossroads between robotics, control theory, artificial intelligence, algorithms, and computer graphics. The particular subjects covered include motion planning, discrete planning, planning under uncertainty, sensor-based planning, visibility, decision-theoretic planning, game theory, information spaces, reinforcement learning, nonlinear systems, trajectory planning, nonholonomic planning, and kinodynamic planning. Available for download in PDF and ePub formats.

Founded in January 1999, the society aims to promote the investigation, teaching, and application of game theory. Game theory studies strategic interaction in competitive and cooperative environments. Only fifty years old, it has already revolutionized economics, and is spreading rapidly to a wide variety of fields. It develops general mathematical formulas and algorithms to identify optimal strategies and to predict the outcome of interactions.

Resources for learning and teaching strategy for business and life. Lecture notes: online notes for teaching game theory. Books: reviews of textbooks. Interactive materials: Java applets and online games. Quizzes and tests: evaluation materials, print and online. Pop culture: game theory in the popular press. Games strategy games to test your skill. Dictionary: glossary of game theory concepts.