Contracts Are Everywhere

Marriage, employment, mortgages, institutions, and constitutions all contain agreements about rights, obligations, information, and incentives. Yet deception, exploitation, and loopholes persist—which is why game theory matters.

Across thirty-five lectures, economist Nie Huihua uses contract theory to analyze family life, workplaces, businesses, markets, and government. Familiar questions about degrees, overtime, KPIs, mergers, marriage, food safety, taxation, and trade become tools for understanding an imperfect world. Audio is in Chinese.