Saturday, September 26, 2015

Matching, repugnance, and refugee resettlement

A Swiss review of my book Who Gets What and Why raises the issue of refugee resettlement:

Le Prix Nobel qui intervient sur des marchés répugnants by Emmanuel Garessus

His final paragraph:
"La comparaison avec l’immigration n’est pas impossible. Aujourd’hui, la demande s’adresse à des passeurs qui se moquent de la vie des individus et de leurs perspectives. Et l’offre ne réfléchit qu’en termes de planification, de barrières et de quotas. Pourquoi ne pas faire appel aux chercheurs qui, comme Alvin Roth, ont conçu, grâce à de vastes bases de données, des systèmes d’allocation permettant de satisfaire les besoins d’échanges des individus?"

Google translate renders that as
"Comparison with immigration is not impossible. Today, the demand is for smugglers who make fun of people's lives and their perspectives. And the offer does not reflect that in terms of planning, barriers and quotas. Why not appeal to researchers who, like Alvin Roth, designed through extensive databases of allocation systems to meet the needs of exchanges of individuals?"
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I agree: here are my previous posts on refugees.

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