Who Gets What - And Why: The Hidden World of Matchmaking and Market Design - Couverture rigide

Roth, Alvin

 
9780007520763: Who Gets What - And Why: The Hidden World of Matchmaking and Market Design
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 000752076X ISBN 13 : 9780007520763
Editeur : William Collins, 2015

Synopsis

A Nobel Prize winner reveals the often surprising rules that govern so much of our lives - in which money may play little or no role. This book gives insights into the most important decisions you’ll ever make and shows how how our lives are shaped not only by the choices we make, but by the choices we have.

Who Gets What and Why is a piquantly written, mind-expanding exploration of the markets that matter most to many of us. If you’ve ever sought a job or hired someone, applied to university or guided your child into a good school, asked someone out on a date or been asked out, you have participated in a matching market. They are everywhere around us and account for some of the biggest technological successes of the decade, like Uber and Airbnb. Matching markets can even be the gatekeeper of life itself, guiding how desperately ill patients receive scarce organs for transplants.

Alvin E. Roth shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in economics for his pioneering research into market design – the principles that govern all kinds of markets where money isn’t the only factor in determining who gets what. His book reveals what factors make these markets work well – or badly – and shows us all how to recognise a good match and make smarter, more confident decisions.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alvin E. Roth 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 corecipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in economics.

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Éditeur
William Collins
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
000752076X
ISBN 13 
9780007520763
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
272
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ISBN 10 :  0007520786 ISBN 13 :  9780007520787
Editeur : HARPER COLLINS, 2016
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