https://gstechschulte.github.io/categories/mechanism-design/Recent content in Mechanism-Design on The Feasible SetHugo -- 0.135.0en-usFri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://gstechschulte.github.io/posts/2026-05-08-thinking-about-mechanism-design/Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://gstechschulte.github.io/posts/2026-05-08-thinking-about-mechanism-design/<p>This post is an ongoing investigation of my <a href="https://gstechschulte.github.io/posts/2025-09-02-future-of-ai/">alternative view of AI</a> and the role of algorithms for multi-agent systems in markets.</p> <p>Game theory is concerned with predicting the behavior of agents participating in an strategic interaction. We can also ask the inverse. Given a desired behavior of the agents, what strategic interaction would give rise to this behavior? For example, there are two firms $A$ and $B$. Each firm can choose to cooperate $C$ or defect $D$ which results in the following payoff matrix</p>