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econ.TH2025
The pursuit of happiness
Debora Princepe, Onofrio Mazzarisi, Erol Akcay +2
This paper studies populations of individuals -- that we call homo-felix -- who maximise an objective function that we call happiness. The happiness of one individual depends on th…
cond-mat1997★ 25 cited
Scaling Behavior in the Stable Marriage Problem
M. J. Omero, M. Dzierzawa, M. Marsili +1
We study the optimization of the stable marriage problem. All individuals attempt to optimize their own satisfaction, subject to mutually conflicting constraints. We find that the…
cond-mat1997★ 16 cited
Fluctuations around Nash Equilibria in Game Theory
M. Marsili, Y. -C. Zhang
We investigate the fluctuations induced by irrationality in simple games with a large number of competing players. We show that Nash equilibria in such games are ``weakly'' stable:…