“The Bidding Game” was written by science writer Erica Klarreich with the assistance of Drs. Kenneth Arrow, Robert Aumann, John McMillan, Paul Milgrom, Roger Myerson, and Thomas Schelling for Beyond Discovery®: The Path from Research to Human Benefit, a project of the National Academy of Sciences.
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