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Alvin E. Roth is an American economist and professor at Stanford University, known for his pioneering work in game theory and market design.
Known for: Who Gets What – and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
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Who Gets What – and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
In this book, Nobel Prize–winning economist Alvin E. Roth explores the hidden structure of markets that govern how people find jobs, schools, and even partners. He explains how matching markets—where money alone cannot determine who gets what—shape our lives, and how better design can make them fairer and more efficient. Drawing on examples from kidney exchanges to school admissions, Roth reveals the principles behind successful market design and the human stories that make them work.
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Understanding Matching Markets: Beyond Price Mechanisms
Most economic textbooks begin with markets governed by price—grain, oil, stocks—where prices adjust until supply meets demand. But matching markets play by a different set of rules. In these environments, prices often cannot do the work for us. You can’t auction your way into a marriage or a medical...
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Stability and the Science of Matching: Lessons from Gale–Shapley
The workhorse of modern matching theory is the concept of stability. A match is stable when there are no two participants who would rather be paired with each other than with their assigned partners. It sounds simple, but this idea has revolutionized how we allocate resources and opportunities. The...
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Alvin E. Roth is an American economist and professor at Stanford University, known for his pioneering work in game theory and market design. He shared the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design.
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