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Podcast: New Books in Business, Management, and Marketing
Episode: Alvin E. Roth, "Who Gets What--and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design" (HMH, 2015)
Description: In Who Gets What â and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design (Mariner Books, 2015), Nobel Memorial Prize Winner Alvin Roth explains his pioneering work in the study of matching markets such as kidney exchange, marriage, job placements for new doctors and new professors, and enrollments in schools or colleges. In these markets, âbuyersâ and âsellersâ must each chose the other, and getting the prices right is only a small part of what makes for a successful transaction, if cash is even involved at all. Rothâs work has led the way in taking microeconomics outside the halls of academic theo...