SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND MECHANISM DESIGN. Proceedings of the Second Francqui Colloquium, 10-11 June

By presenting a collection of contributions by leading experts, this book illustrates the variety of issues that the discipline of "mechanism design', as a branch of game theory, is capable of dealing with: voting rules, trial procedures, public good production, cost-sharing, monopolistic regulation, bequest function, etc. However, the book illustrates also the fundamental unity of the basic questions : information gathering, communication, individual as well as coalitional strategic and dynamic behavior."