Mechanism Design Theory for Dummies

If you'd like to learn more about today's Nobel Prize winners in economics (except it's not a real Nobel Prize, right?) I'd recommend Alex Tabarrok's post here which at least gave me a taste of what "mechanism design" might be.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/10/mechanism-design-theory-for-dummies/46774/