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A lot of people are surprised economists are assisting with kidney exchanges. Exchanges are what economists are good at.
~ Alvin E. Roth
Economists
Exchanges
Good
Kidney
Lot
People
Surprised
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Experimental economics is about conducting experiments: bringing economics into the laboratory or creating controlled conditions in the field that allow us to understand better what we are seeing in less controlled circumstances.
~ Alvin E. Roth
About
Allow
Better
Bringing
Circumstances
Conditions
Conducting
Controlled
Creating
Economics
Experimental
Experiments
Field
Laboratory
Less
Seeing
Understand
Us
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I don't think I could have thought of any place other than Stanford to leave Harvard for.
~ Alvin E. Roth
Any
Could
Harvard
Leave
Other
Place
Stanford
Than
Think
Thought
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I gravitated to economics because I'm interested in how people coordinate and collaborate with each other. Economics studies all the ways people get along with each other.
~ Alvin E. Roth
Along
Because
Collaborate
Coordinate
Each
Economics
Get
How
Interested
Other
People
Studies
Ways
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I moved to Harvard in 1998, and in 2000 the first kidney exchange in the United States was done at a hospital nearby. I started to think, 'Gee, there might be a way where I could help organize it, make it easier for people to find kidneys.'
~ Alvin E. Roth
Could
Done
Easier
Exchange
Find
First
Gee
Harvard
Help
Hospital
Kidney
Make
Might
Moved
Nearby
Organize
People
Started
States
Think
United
United States
Way
Where
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I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.
~ Alvin E. Roth
Always
Been
Better
Interested
Make
Mathematics
Using
Work
World
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In a paper called 'The Economics of Matching: Stability and Incentives,' I showed that there were not any mechanisms that would always both produce a stable matching and make it completely safe for all firms and workers to reveal their true preferences.
~ Alvin E. Roth
Always
Any
Both
Economics
Incentives
Make
Matching
Mechanisms
Paper
Preferences
Produce
Reveal
Safe
Stability
Stable
True
Were
Workers
Would
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It turns out that a Nobel is also followed by other recognitions, and perhaps the most unexpected of these is that the Japan Karate Association in Tokyo has now made me an honorary 7th-degree black belt, something that, given my athletic abilities, is even more unimaginable than being an Economic Sciences Laureate.
~ Alvin E. Roth
Ability
Also
Association
Athletic
Being
Belt
Black
Economic
Even
Followed
Given
Honorary
Japan
Karate
Laureate
Made
Me
More
Most
Nobel
Now
Other
Out
Perhaps
Sciences
Something
Than
Tokyo
Turns
Unexpected
Unimaginable
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Market design is about understanding the details of markets in sufficient detail so that we can help fix them when they are broken.
~ Alvin E. Roth
About
Broken
Design
Detail
Details
Fix
Help
Market
Markets
Sufficient
Them
Understanding
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Maybe we could think of science as being like a nuclear chain reaction in which people and ideas bounce off each other, and if critical mass is reached, a new field is formed.
~ Alvin E. Roth
Being
Bounce
Chain
Could
Critical
Critical Mass
Each
Field
Formed
Ideas
Like
Mass
Maybe
New
Nuclear
Off
Other
People
Reached
Reaction
Science
Think
Which
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My opportunity to design school choice systems began in 2003 with a phone call from Jeremy Lack at the New York City Department of Education. He knew of my work on the medical match and wondered if similar efforts might help reorganize the dysfunctional, congested system then used to match students to high schools.
~ Alvin E. Roth
Began
Call
Choice
City
Department
Design
Dysfunctional
Education
Efforts
He
Help
High
High Schools
Jeremy
Knew
Lack
Match
Medical
Might
New
New York
New York City
Opportunity
Phone
Phone Call
School
Schools
Similar
Students
System
Systems
Then
Used
Wondered
Work
York
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My Ph.D. is in operations research. I was interested in making things work better and using mathematics to help do that. So operations research is what I studied as an undergraduate and graduate student.
~ Alvin E. Roth
Better
Graduate
Graduate Student
Help
Interested
Making
Mathematics
Operations
Research
Student
Studied
Things
Undergraduate
Using
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Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.
~ Alvin E. Roth
About
Actually
Disease
Expect
Kidney
Led
Mathematics
Me
Often
People
Personal
Personal Story
Some
Story
Touching
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Some say economics has all kinds of good tools and techniques, but it has an absence of interesting problems. I look around the world, and I see all kinds of interesting, important problems we ought to solve with the tools we have.
~ Alvin E. Roth
Absence
Around
Economics
Good
I See
Important
Interesting
Kinds
Look
Ought
Problems
Say
See
Solve
Some
Techniques
Tools
World
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The simple model of a bridge is great, and you could not build a bridge without understanding it well. But if you're actually building the bridge, you need to know the site. A lot of economics is like that: When prices go up, demand is gonna go down. You can't forget that and run your economy. But it's not the only thing you need to know.
~ Alvin E. Roth
Actually
Bridge
Build
Building
Could
Demand
Down
Economics
Economy
Forget
Go
Gonna
Great
Know
Like
Lot
Model
Need
Only
Prices
Run
Simple
Site
The Only Thing
Thing
Understanding
Up
Well
Without
You
Your
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When you're doing kidney transplants, you have to find out who can exchange kidneys with whom, doing blood tests to make sure it's true. You can't just work on the preliminary data. Then you have to organize the logistics.
~ Alvin E. Roth
Blood
Data
Doing
Exchange
Find
Just
Kidney
Logistics
Make
Organize
Out
Preliminary
Sure
Tests
Then
True
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Whom
Work
You
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