Notation
Pareto improvement: make some
Themes
Finding equilibria in games, making the ideal move.
The complexity of that effort. Natural game strategies to converge to equilibrium. Internet as an equilibrium with unknown game.
Learning in Games.
Mechanism design: make games with players with unknown, private utilities; with desired dominant strategy solutions.
Find the price of anarchy: Total cost (equilibrium with selfish agents) - min Total cost (selfless agents).
Applications
Any human or AI endeavour involving optimum allocation of resources, maybe using a market.