Rod Hay wrote: > > Take for example a recent fad in microeconomics -- game theory. Has > anyone seen a convincing three person game? So although interesting > logical puzzles can be solved, little of general practical application > can arise. Oh, really? We just last week had a paper presented here on the student - school assignment problem in Boston (where there is parental public school choice permitted within limits), and the dropping of the previous methods of choice for the new one, designed by game theorists (including Al Roth), mimicking the medical residency matching algorithms and thereby making the school choice problem strategy proof. E. Roy Weintraub