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Laddar... Who Gets What ― and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design (utgåvan 2015)av Alvin E. Roth (Författare)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. 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. 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. 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.) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
"A Nobel laureate reveals the often surprising rules that govern a vast array of activities -- both mundane and life-changing -- in which money may play little or no role. If you've ever sought a job or hired someone, applied to college or guided your child into a good kindergarten, asked someone out on a date or been asked out, you've participated in a kind of market. Most of the study of economics deals with commodity markets, where the price of a good connects sellers and buyers. But what about other kinds of "goods," like a spot in the Yale freshman class or a position at Google? This is the territory of matching markets, where "sellers" and "buyers" must choose each other, and price isn't the only factor determining who gets what. Alvin E. Roth is one of the world's leading experts on matching markets. He has even designed several of them, including the exchange that places medical students in residencies and the system that increases the number of kidney transplants by better matching donors to patients. In Who Gets What -- And Why, Roth reveals the matching markets hidden around us and shows how to recognize a good match and make smarter, more confident decisions"-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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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.