# Putting the "design" in mechanism design: tracing the evolution of economics as a design language.

- Speakers: [Oliver Beige](https://streameth.org/speakers/oliver-beige)
- Event: [Funding the Commons Berlin 2023](https://streameth.org/funding_the_commons/funding_the_commons_berlin_2023), Berlin, Germany
- Channel: [Funding the Commons](https://streameth.org/funding_the_commons)
- Date: 2023-09-09
- Duration: 15:36
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/65b8f8cba5b2d09b88ec0e53

## Description

The digital world increasingly requires us to design "economic engines": computational abstractions that find optimal ways allocate resources. This talk traces the origins of "economic engineering" and delineates the directions in which economics has to evolve to become a design language, and conversely, how engineers can adopt economic concepts in their design work.