|
|
 |
Home > MSI Degree > Course Catalogue > Course Description
SI 686: Public Goods
This seven-week course covers economic and social psychological theories of what motivates contributions to public goods, with some interesting applications, such as open-source software, social bookmarking, and P2P. Upon completion of this course, students have a broad understanding of situations where it may be valuable to explicitly consider individual incentives when engineering systems to motivate contribution to public goods; are able to recognize the class of mechanism that would be appropriate to particular real-world settings; and are able to identify the key design consideration in adapting such mechanisms to particular settings. In addition, doctoral students should be able to prove the game theoretic properties of existing or new institutions.
Credits: 1.5
Term offered: Fall
Prerequisites:
SI 563 or permission of instructor (Session 1)
Home > MSI Degree > Course Catalogue > Course Description
|
|
|
|
|
|
