Economics

Auctions and Bidding

• Auctions and bidding: A guide for computer scientists (2011) by S. Parsons, J. Rodriguez-Aguilar, M. Klein

• Optimal Bidding in Online Auctions (2001) by Dimitris Bertsimas, Jerey Hawkinsy, Georgia Perakis

• Online Ad Auctions (2009) by Hal Varian

Open Source

• The Simple Economics of Open Source (2000) by Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole

Contract enforcement/principal-agent models

• Contract Enforceability and Economic Institutions in Early Trade: The Maghribi Traders' Coalition (1993) by Avner Greif

Game theory

• Two-person cooperative games (1950) by John Forbes Nash

Emergent Economies for Role Playing Games

• Emergent Economies for Role Playing Games (2012) by Jonathon Doran and Ian Parberry