Category Archives: Economics

Algorithmic Game Theory: Past, Present, and Future

Posted on June 26, 2022 by Gil Kalai

Noam Nisan is 60 Today, June 26 2022, is the opening day of Algorithmic Game Theory: Past, Present, and Future, a workshop in honor of Noam Nisan’s 60th Birthday. The workshop takes place on June 26-30 2022, at the CS … Continue reading →

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To cheer you up in difficult times 26: Two real-life lectures yesterday at the Technion

Posted on June 9, 2021 by Gil Kalai

After 16 months without lecturing to an audience in my same location, I gave yesterday two lectures at the Technion in front of a live audience (and some additional audience in remote locations). The main lecture was in COMSOC 2021, … Continue reading →

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A small update from Israel and memories from Singapore: Partha Dasgupta, Robin Mason, Frank Ramsey, and 007

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Gil Kalai

A small update about the situation here in Israel Eight weeks ago I wrote that my heart goes out to the people of Wuhan and China, and these days my heart goes out to people in Italy, Spain, the US, … Continue reading →

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Game Theory – on-line Course at IDC, Herzliya

Posted on March 29, 2020 by Gil Kalai

Game theory, a graduate course at IDC, Herzliya; Lecturer: Gil Kalai; TA: Einat Wigderson,  ZOOM mentor: Ethan. Starting Tuesday March 31, I am giving an on-line course (in Hebrew) on Game theory at IDC, Herzliya (IDC English site; IDC Chinese … Continue reading →

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TYI 39 : Can a coalition of children guarantees all being in the same class?

Posted on July 25, 2019 by Gil Kalai

There is a class of children that have just finished elementary school. Now they all move from elementary school to high school and classes are reshuffled. Each child lists three friends, and the assignment of children into classes ensures that … Continue reading →

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Is it Legitimate/Ethical for Google to close Google+?

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Gil Kalai

Update April 2, 2019: the links below are not working anymore.  Google Plus is a nice social platform with tens of millions participants. I found it especially nice for scientific posts, e.g. by John Baez, Moshe Vardi, or about symplectic … Continue reading →

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Fix a Horse Race…

Posted on February 20, 2019 by Gil Kalai

GK (2019): Can you base world economy on horse races? Here is an old unpublished draft from 2008 that I did not complete, which was  inspired by the  economic crisis at that time. (It also felt a little over the … Continue reading →

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Sergiu Hart: Two-Vote or not to Vote

Posted on October 10, 2017 by Gil Kalai

  Sergiu Hart raises a very interesting idea regarding elections. Consider the Brexit referendum. Sergiu  proposes to have two rounds two weeks apart.  Every voter can vote in each, and the votes of both rounds add up! The outcomes of … Continue reading →

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A Historical Picture Taken by Nimrod Megiddo

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Gil Kalai

Last week I took a bus from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and I saw (from behind) a person that I immediately recognized. It was Nimrod Megiddo, from IBM Almaden, one of the very first  to relate game theory with complexity … Continue reading →

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Test Your Intuition (23): How Many Women?

Posted on June 29, 2014 by Gil Kalai

How many women can you find on this poster announcing the 25th Jerusalem School in Economics Theory devoted to Matching and Market Design? Please respond to the poll:

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