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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Beyond classic commodity markets, matching markets depend on more than mere prices alone.
Chapter 3: Technology can help reduce market congestion.
Chapter 4: Matching markets may become inefficient and unravel when the participants learn to game the system.
Chapter 5: Encouraging participants to share vital information can greatly improve matching markets.
Chapter 6: Letting participants signal their preferences can ease some market congestion.
Description
In Who Gets What – and Why (2015), Nobel Prize winner Alvin Roth brings his groundbreaking research on market design to a broader, nonspecialist audience, explaining how markets work, why they sometimes fail and what we can do to improve them. Using contemporary examples, Roth outlines the nonfinancial factors that shape markets and shows how we can make more informed marketplace decisions.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone interested in how different economies function
- Business, government and community leaders responsible for designing efficient markets
- Anyone who wants to make better decisions in life, love and work