id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt nk322b91306 Edward M Nik-Khah Designs on the Mechanism: Economics and the FCC Spectrum Auctions 2006 .txt text/plain 249 8 35 Chapter 3 reviews the field of mechanism design, and finds three discrete and to some extent incompatible versions distinguished by modeling strategy and, importantly, by intended user of the expertise. Chapter 4 studies both the published accounts of the FCC mechanism design process as well as the unpublished materials in the FCC archives, and finds that the strategic imperatives of a handful of large telecommunications companies displaced the scientific imperatives of mechanism design. cache/nk322b91306.txt txt/nk322b91306.txt