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Students/readers: If you want to purchase the book, some alternatives are provided as clickable links below the book cover image.

Teachers: Here you can download my course materials. Slides are created with Latex Beamer.

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Endorsements:

This slim volume offers an amazing wealth of ideas about institutions and organizations. The exposition nicely combines historical and experimental evidence with clear and simple behavioral game theoretic explanations. A book to instruct and delight students and scholars alike.

Avinash Dixit

Institutional and Organizational Economics not only provides a superb development of the ideas of organizational economics using the tools of basic game theory, but also offers fascinating connections to history, sociology, and literature. A tour de force.

Oliver D. Hart

Lecture series 1: Global Challenges

Introductory course: With the help of decision theory and behavioral game theory, the course teaches students to think more sharply about challenges such as global warming and pandemics. In addition to the textbook, I use articles, cases, and realistic role plays to integrate analytical thinking with hands-on experience. I also invite guest lecturers. Here is the full course description. Here is a collection of exam questions. Lecture notes and seminars are listed below.

Warm thanks to my colleagues Maria Perrotta Berlin and Jesper Roine for inventing this course and to the Global Challenges Foundation for initiative and support.

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Lectures and seminars

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Lecture series 2: Economics of Organization

Intermediate/Advanced course: This course teaches economics of organization from a new angle. The starting point is a world without functioning institutions. The first part of the course uses (behavioral) game theory to study the steps toward fully functioning institutions. The second part of the course studies obstacles to contracting, presenting the main building blocs of contract theory. Here is a course description.

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