Alvin E. Roth, "Who Gets What--and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design" (HMH, 2015)
New Books in Economics
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How to Find the Right Job in a Matching Market
In the new york stock exchange, if you want to buy shares in microsopt, you don't worry whether they've taken good care of those shares when they had them. In a matching market, however, people have relationships along with their transactions,. And they're not commodity markets, right? So i mentioned the new ork stock exchange. You can't just work at stanford, you also have to be hired. Gogle can't just decide you're going to come work for them. They have to compete with amazon. Ah, those are matching markets. The matching element of life is almost more important than that wel thit rite.
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