Thursday, March 19, 2015

Who Gets What--and Why. My forthcoming book now has a website

The June 2 publication date is coming. Here's the publisher's website for my book: Who Gets What--and Why. (The new economics of matchmaking and market design)



Contents
Part I . Markets Are Everywhere
1. Introduction: Every Market Tells a Story 3
2. Markets for Breakfast and Through the Day 15
3. Lifesaving Exchanges 29
Part II . Thwarted Desires: How Marketplaces Fail
4. Too Soon 57
5. Too Fast: The Greed for Speed 81
6. Congestion: Why Thicker Needs to Be Quicker 101
7. Too Risky: Trust, Safety, and Simplicity 113
Part III . Design Inventions to Make Markets Smarter, Thicker, and Faster
8. The Match: Strong Medicine for New Doctors 133
9. Back to School 153
10. Signaling 169
Part IV . Forbidden Markets and Free Markets
11. Repugnant, Forbidden . . . and Designed 195
12. Free Markets and Market Design 217
Notes 233
Index 247

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