A Nobel laureate reveals the often surprising rules that govern a vast array of activities mdash both mundane and life-changing mdash in which money may play little or no role If yoursquove ever sought a job or hired someone applied to college or guided your child into a good kindergarten asked someone out on a date or been asked out yoursquove participated in a kind of market Most of the study of economics deals with commodity markets where the price of a good connects sellers and buyers But what about other kinds of ldquogoodsrdquo like a spot in the Yale freshman class or a position at Google This is the territory of matching markets where ldquosellersrdquo and ldquobuyersrdquo must choose each other and price isnrsquot the only factor determining who gets what Alvin E Roth is one of the worldrsquos leading experts on matching markets He has even designed several of them including the exchange that places medical students in residencies and the system that increases the number of kidney transplants by better matching donors to patients In Who Gets What mdash And Why Roth reveals thematching markets hidden around us and shows how to recognize a good match and make smarter more confident decisions.
