Here's an NPR radio show, in which I was interviewed about Who Gets What and Why
The webpage also has this picture, which must be what I look like on radio:)
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And here you can hear what I sound like on Radio New Zealand:
Professor Alvin Roth won the Nobel Prize for economics partly for his work helping match willing donors with those who need kidney transplants.
Most economists study commodity markets, in which buyers and sellers find common ground in the price of goods. This hour, we’ll talk to Nobel Prize-winning economist Alvin E. Roth about matching markets — like employment and college admission — in which money is only one factor in making a connection. Roth’s new book is Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
The webpage also has this picture, which must be what I look like on radio:)
And here you can hear what I sound like on Radio New Zealand:
Nobel Prize winner, Alvin Roth: "Who Gets What and Why"
Originally aired on Nine To Noon, Monday 22 June 2015
Professor Alvin Roth won the Nobel Prize for economics partly for his work helping match willing donors with those who need kidney transplants.He has spent his career looking at markets of all kinds and how ‘buyer’ and ‘seller’ come together. In his new book, Who Gets What and Why, he argues we are surrounded by matching markets. From applying for a job, to asking someone out on a date, matching plays a crucial but invisible role in our lives.
Professor Roth says matching is why apps like uber and airbnb are so successful, but while he is an advocate of market forces, as he tells Kathryn Ryan, there must also be rules.
Photo: Steve Castillo