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Alvin E. Roth

Auteur van Who Gets What–and Why

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Alvin E. Roth, PhD, is the McCaw Professor of Economics at Stanford University and is one of the world's leading experts in the fields of market design and game theory. He was a co-recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in economics.

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Um prêmio Nobel revela as regras muitas vezes surpreendentes que governam uma vasta gama de atividades - tanto mundanas quanto transformadoras - nas quais o dinheiro pode desempenhar pouco ou nenhum papel.
Se você já procurou um emprego ou contratou alguém, se candidatou a uma faculdade ou orientou seu filho a entrar em um bom jardim de infância, convidou alguém para sair ou foi convidado para sair, você participou de uma espécie de mercado. A maior parte do estudo da economia lida com mercados de commodities, onde o preço de um bem conecta vendedores e compradores. Mas e quanto a outros tipos de "bens", como uma vaga na turma de calouros de Yale ou um cargo no Google? Este é o território dos mercados correspondentes, onde "vendedores" e "compradores" devem escolher um ao outro, e o preço não é o único fator que determina quem recebe o quê.

Alvin E. Roth é um dos maiores especialistas mundiais em correspondência de mercados. Ele até projetou vários deles, incluindo o intercâmbio que coloca estudantes de medicina em residências e o sistema que aumenta o número de transplantes renais ao combinar melhor os doadores com os pacientes. Em Who Gets What -- And Why, Roth revela os mercados correspondentes escondidos ao nosso redor e mostra como reconhecer uma boa correspondência e tomar decisões mais inteligentes e confiantes.
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MarceloPinto | 4 andere besprekingen | Jun 27, 2023 |
3.5 stars rounded up because of Nobel Prize. Let's hear it for Alvin. Nobel Prize winner, saved thousands of lives with designing a kidney exchange program, and improved the choices for schools for New York and Boston. He won the Nobel Prize for "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design".

There are some great reviews here summarizing the design already. The theory is quite simple and elegant actually. And the book could have been greatly thinned out.

I found the book interesting enough even though I have no vested interest in kidney exchanging or selection for public schools. One day perhaps I will be in a position to adopt Alvin's ideas and make a difference in the world as well.

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wellington299 | 4 andere besprekingen | Feb 19, 2022 |
This is a book by a great author who is both a subject-matter expert and the creator of a lot of the things he's writing about, but somehow it manages to be boring and lacking in detail. The premise is that there are markets used to allocate resources, including markets where currency doesn't play a role, and that these markets need to be designed (or have evolved) in certain ways. Unfortunately every example given is so simplified as to really be more worthy of a mass-market magazine article, with no real insights.… (meer)
 
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octal | 4 andere besprekingen | Jan 1, 2021 |
A massive disappointment from a nobel prize winner. It reads like a bad Malcolm Gladwell, Don Tapscott or Steven Levitt book. I learned almost nothing. He could have written an article instead, but that would have required him to identify and name his ideas. (And that is not even to mention the way he speaks of the theft of native American land as a pioneering business opportunity or the way he makes sure to pepper his book with soft promotion for Israel.)
 
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GeorgeHunter | 4 andere besprekingen | Sep 13, 2020 |

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