Recent Developments in General Equilibrium, Game Theory, and Social Choice

Francesca Busetto is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Udine, Italy.Sayantan Ghosal is Adam Smith Chair in Political Economy at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.Ludovic Julien is Professor of Economics at the University of Paris Nanterre, France, and a member of EconomiX.Simone Tonin is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Udine, Italy.

• Francesca Busetto, Sayantan Ghosal, Ludovic Julien, Simone Tonin.- Monopolistic Competition with large firms.- Consciousness of the Limits of Economic Theories as a Driver of Theoretical Developments (The Centrality of Walrasian General Equilibrium).- The Stackelberg Walras Equilibrium as a Subgame Perfect Equilibrium a Conjecture.- Existence of non-autarkic Nash equilibrium in mixed bilateral oligopolies.- A Note on Double Marginalization in Mixed Bilateral Oligopolies.- The Two Demands.- A Game Theoretic Model of Demand Constrained Economies.- Genesis and development of Walras’s theory of exchange equilibrium Isnard’s, Cournot’s, and Piccard’s contributions.- Climate change and the rise of populism.- Growth, Lockdown and the Dynamics of Pandemics.- Beyond GDP Optimism: Rethinking Italy’s Industrialization Debate.- Limit cycles and best-response dynamics in simple models of aggregate activity.- Debt Transparency as a Self-Enforcing Outcome.- Formation of Cross-Ownership under No-Idling in Cournot Industries.- An Epistemic Analysis of Simple Kantian Equilibrium.- An Analysis of Nudge-Related Concepts.- On revealed preference in individual and collective choice.- Sustained social mobility and the Kemeny rule.- Research and Teaching Targets in Academia.