economists and legal scholars. This book introduces Scotchmer's life and work; analyses her pioneering contributions to the … economics of patents and innovation incentives, with a special focus on the modern theory of cumulative innovation; and … describes her pioneering work on law and economics, evolutionary game theory, and general equilibrium/club theory. This book …

economists and legal scholars. This book introduces Scotchmer's life and work; analyses her pioneering contributions to the … economics of patents and innovation incentives, with a special focus on the modern theory of cumulative innovation; and … describes her pioneering work on law and economics, evolutionary game theory, and general equilibrium/club theory. This book …

mobility of seven core behavioral economists to better understand how it has influenced the early development of BE and the … interdisciplinary practices of later behavioral economists. Besides the movement of psychologists towards the center of economics, we … identify an outward movement of economists away from the discipline. This movement away from economics has allowed some …

in legislatures. The chapters of this book contribute to the theory of voting with incomplete information, to the … literature on Downsian and probabilistic voting models of elections, to the theory of social choice in distributive environments …, and to the theory of optimal dynamic decision-making. The essays employ a spectrum of research methods, from game …