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55 Post author: badger 30 April 2014 04:21PM

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Comment author: badger 30 April 2014 09:58:24PM 6 points [-]

Some exposure to game theory. Otherwise, tolerance of formulas and a little bit of calculus for optimization.

At least, I hope that's the case. I've been teaching this to economics grad students for the past few years, so I know common points of misunderstanding, but can easily take some jargon for granted. Please call me out on anything that is unclear.