I agree with sakranut. The posts you listed don’t seem related to game theory concepts, so they would be new material, not illustrations to existing material. IMO if you add something to the course, it should be taken from published scientific work. Why not use Kahneman and Tversky’s research on heuristics and biases?
“Why not use Kahneman and Tversky’s research on heuristics and biases?”
This stuff is a lot harder to read so I would have to assign much less of it than if I go with stuff written for a general audience. I almost never assign academic articles.
I agree with sakranut. The posts you listed don’t seem related to game theory concepts, so they would be new material, not illustrations to existing material. IMO if you add something to the course, it should be taken from published scientific work. Why not use Kahneman and Tversky’s research on heuristics and biases?
“Why not use Kahneman and Tversky’s research on heuristics and biases?”
This stuff is a lot harder to read so I would have to assign much less of it than if I go with stuff written for a general audience. I almost never assign academic articles.
Maybe I’m misjudging the audience. What kind of stuff do you usually assign?
A standard textbook (Games of Strategy by Dixit, Skeath, and Reiley) and various articles I find interesting such as these:
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/06/why-signals-are-shallow.html http://freakonomics.com/2011/09/30/a-common-joke-about-common-knowledge/ http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2005/06/sithwards_induc.html