GTO2-2-01: Mechanism Design: Taste
Channel: Game Theory Online
Date: 02/12/2013

Mechanism Design is "game theory in reverse": rather than using game theory to understand the behavior and incentives in existing institutions, it seeks to design institutions with desirable properties.  This video from Game Theory Online (http://www.game-theory-class.org) gives a high-level introduction to mechanism design.  It features Matt Jackson (Stanford).