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209. Make Me a Match

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Kidney Exchange

The first kidney paired exchange ever took place in south korea in 19 91. Exchange that roth mentioned happened at rhode island hospital in providence. Then it was covered in the press. And there i was. I had notes about kidney exchange. So with a former student of mine from pittsburgwo was visiting at a at harvard utgunver, i said to him, look at this. There's kidney exchange. Let's, let's give a classit's teaching a market design class. We know how to organize on a large scale,. trade among people, dealing with indivisible goods when you can't use money. Several other economists began thinking about the problem

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