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The theory of games has been developed in good part by economists, but it serves as an important conceptual framework for the study of the evolution of living species. Along the same line of thought, mechanism design might inform and be informed by Biology.
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“We may easily conceive that such an intercourse scarce required a more refined language than that of crows and monkeys, which flock together almost in the same manner.”
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Laslier, JF. (2019). Biological Design. In: Laslier, JF., Moulin, H., Sanver, M., Zwicker, W. (eds) The Future of Economic Design. Studies in Economic Design. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18050-8_31
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