He’s not a Nobel Laureate, but Al Roth gave a recent lecture at Google on the topic. He talks about job matching and kidney sales as examples.
Bonus question: can you name the economist who introduces Roth?
Thanks to Greg Mankiw for the pointer.
Oct 17 2007
Megan McArdle writes, Take a test for a disease that has a false positive rate of 5%, and a disease prevalence of 1 in 1000--lupus, say. If you test positive in a random assay, what are the odds that you actually have the disease? Most people--even, apparently, a shocking number of doctors--would say that the odds ar...
Oct 17 2007
I try to explain what George Mason economics is all about. If you want to be a Masonomist, you have to lose the we. When people use we in today's politics , they are doing two things. 1. Appealing to a moral entity that stands apart from and above John, Mary, or any other individual 2. Treating government as th...
Oct 17 2007
He's not a Nobel Laureate, but Al Roth gave a recent lecture at Google on the topic. He talks about job matching and kidney sales as examples. Bonus question: can you name the economist who introduces Roth? Thanks to Greg Mankiw for the pointer.
READER COMMENTS
Mike
Oct 17 2007 at 8:02am
If you listen carefully at the end of the introduction, Al Roth says to the introducer, “Thanks, Hal.” It is none other than Hal Varian.
Al Roth also has an article in the October 2007 issue of the Harvard Business Review, covering the same general topics.
Jeff
Oct 17 2007 at 10:16am
Here is an earlier lecture given by Al Roth at Boston University, covering similar topics in market design.
Asif Dowla
Oct 17 2007 at 11:17am
Hal Varian–the new chief economist for Google.
Sally
Oct 18 2007 at 3:07pm
Al Roth is a smart guy, it’s always pleasant to listen to his speech.
http://www.astra-design.com
V
Oct 18 2007 at 3:48pm
My economist boss decided that mech. design was not really a field in its own right and didn’t deserve much attention or Nobel prizes and could only point out the obvious. I should email him this link…I thought it was really neat to think about designing markets and how to go about getting it right is completely in the realm of mech. design and is apparently very difficult, complex, and challenging.
Patri Friedman
Oct 26 2007 at 6:20pm
I ask some questions in that video. (And I also now work for Hal).
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