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Text Books:

Y. Narahari. Game Theory and Mechanism Design. IISc Press and the World Scientific. 2014.
Michael Maschler, Eilan Solan, and Schmuel Zamir. Game Theory. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Y. Narahari, Dinesh Garg, Ramasuri Narayanam, Hastagiri Prakash Game Theoretic Problems in Network Economics and Mechanism Design Solutions. Springer Series in Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing (AIKP), London, UK, 2009. (URL:http://www.springer.com/math/applications/book/978-1-84800-937-0)
Roger B. Myerson. Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict. Harvard University Press, September 1997.
Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, and Jerry R. Green. Microeconomic Theory. Oxford University Press, New York, 1995.
Martin J. Osborne, Ariel Rubinstein. A Course in Game Theory. The MIT Press, August 1994.
Philip D. Straffin, Jr. Game Theory and Strategy. The Mathematical Association of America, January 1993.
Ken Binmore, "Fun and Games : A Text On Game Theory", D. C. Heath & Company, 1992.
Paul Klemperer, Auctions: Theory and Practice, The Toulouse Lectures in Economics, Princeton University Press, 2004.

Classic Papers in Game Theory and Mechanism Design:

M. Shubik, "On the Scope of Gaming", Management Science, Vol. 18, No. 5, Jan., 1972.
R.B. Myerson, "NASH Equilibrium and The History of Economic Theory", Journal of Economic Literature 36:1067-1082 (1999).
M. Shubik, "Game Theory: Economic Applications",International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Macmillan Co. and The Free Press, 1968.
M. Shubik, "Games of Status", Behavioral Science, Vol. 16, No.2, Mar., 1971.
M. Shubik, "Game Theory, Complexity, and Simplicity, Part III: Critique and Prospective".
R.J. Aumann, "Kakutani Fixed point Theorem".
J.F. Nash, "Non-Cooperative Games", The Annals of Mathematics, Second Series, Volume 54, Issue 2(Sept., 1951),286-295.
T. Quint and M. Shubik, "A Bound on the number of Nash Equilibria in a Coordinate Game", Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper 1095.
J.F. Anscombe, R.J. Aumann, "A Definition of Subjective Probability", The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Vol. 34, No. 1(Mar., 1963), 199-205.
M.O. Jackson, "Bayesian Implementation", Economitrica, Vol. 59, No. 2(Mar. ,1991), 461-477.
J. Nash, "The Bargaining Problem", Economitrica, Vol. 18, No. 2, (Apr., 1950), 155-162.
A.E. Roth, "The Nash Solution and the Utility of Bargaining", Economitrica, Vol. 46, No. 3(May., 1978), 587-594.
M. Shubik, "Some Simple Games for Teaching and Research, Part 1: Cooperative Games".
J.F. Nash, "Two-Person Cooperative Games", Economitrica, Vol. 21, No. 1, (Jan., 1953), 128-140.
H.E. Scarf, "On the Existence of a Cooperative Solution for a General Class of N-Person Games", Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 3, No. 2, June, 1971.
G. Debreu and H. Scarf, "A Limit Theorem On The Core of An Economy", International Economic Review, Vol. 4, No. 3, Sept., 1963.
R.J. Aumann, "The Shapley Value".
R.J. Aumann, Economic Applications of the Shapley Value.
W. Vickrey, "Counterspeculation, Auctions, and Competitively Sealed Tenders". Journal of Finance 16, 8-37, 1961.
E. Clarke, "Multipart Pricing of Public Goods". Public Choice 11, 17-33, 1971.
T. Groves, "Incentives in Teams", Econometrica, Vol. 41, No. 4(Jul., 1973), 617-631.
K.J. Arrow and R. Radner, "Allocation of Resources in Large Teams", Econometrica, 1979.
C d'Aspremont and L A G´erard-Varet. Incentives and incomplete information. Journal of Public Economics, 11, 25-45, 1979.

Survey Articles:

P. Klemperer and E. Elgar, "Auction Theory: A Guide to the Literature", in Journal of Economic Surveys, 1999.
R.P. McAfee and J. McMillan, "Auctions and Bidding", in the Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 25, Isseue 2(Jun., 1987), p.699-738.
M.O. Jackson, "Mechanism Theory", in Humanities and Social Sciences, Oct. 2000, p.228-277.
D.C. Parkes, "Classic Mechanism Design", Chapter 2, Ph.D thesis, May, 2001.
D. Garg, Y. Narahari, "Foundations of Mechanism Design", Technical Report, Dept. of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
P.R. Milgrom and R.J. Weber, "A Theory of Auctions and Competetive Bidding", in Economitrica, Vol. 50, Isseue 5(Sept., 1982), p.1089-1122.
J. Kalagnanam and D.C. Parkes, "Auctions, Bidding and Exchange Design", Book chapter in S. Levi, Wu, Shen: Supply Chain Analysis in the eBusiness Area, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.
Y. Narahari and P. Dayama, "Combinatorial Auctions for Electronic Business", to appear in Sadhana (Special Issue on Electronic Commerce and Electronic Business), 2005.
T.S. Chandrashekar, Y. Narahari, C.H. Rosa, D. Kulkarni, and J.D. Tew, "Auction Based Mechanisms for Electronic Procurement, Working Paper, Electronic Enterprises Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, 2005.

Popular Articles:

P. Walker, AN OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF GAME THEORY", April, 1995.
A. Roth and C. Holt, The Nash Equilibrium: A Perspective, in PNAS.
G. Hardin, The Tragedy of the Commons, 1968.
F. Heylighen, The Prisoners' Dilemma, 1995.

Interesting Emerging Trends:

C. Papadimitriou, "Algorithms, games, and the internet"", in the Proceedings of the thirty-third annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, p. 749 - 753, 2001.
A. Fabrikant, C. Papadimitriou, and K. Talwar, "The Complexity of Pure Nash Equilibria", STOC'04, June, 2004.
N. Nisan and A. Ronen, "Algorithmic Mechanism Design", STOC 1999.
N. Nisan, "Algorithms for Selfish Agents", STACS, 1999.
P. Cramton, "Spectrum Auctions", in Chapter 14 of Handbook of Telecommunications Economics, p. 605-639, 2002.
E. Edelman and M. Ostrovsky, "Strategic Bidder Behavior in Sponsored Search Auctions", in Workshop on Sponsored Search Auctions, June 5, 2005.
Game Theoretic Analysis of TCP/IP
Truthful Computing in Wireless Networks
Grid Scheduling
S. Karabuk and S. D. Wu, "Strategic Capacity Planning in the Semiconductor Industry", Technical Report 99T-11, Department of IMSE, Lehigh University.
D. Garg, Y. Narahari, E. Foster, D.M. Kulkarni, and J.D. Tew, "A Mechanism Design Approach to Decentralized Design of Six Sigma Supply Chains", in IEEE Conference on Electronic Commerce (IEEE CEC-2005), Munchen, Germany, July 2005.
T.S. Chandrashekar and Y. Narahari, "Economic Mechanisms for Shortest Path Cooperative Games with Incomplete Information", in 1st Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, December 15-17, 2005, Hong Kong.