Alvin Roth
Economist and Nobel laureate
Alvin E. Roth is an American economist who shared the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He wrote Who Gets What – and Why.
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American Born 1951 in New York City, United States
About Alvin Roth
Alvin E. Roth is an American academic, born on 18 December 1951. He holds the Craig and Susan McCaw chair in economics at Stanford University and is professor emeritus at Harvard University. He served as president of the American Economic Association in 2017. His work covers game theory, market design and experimental economics, and he is known for applying economic theory to real-world problems. In 2012 he shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Lloyd Shapley. Who Gets What – and Why is his book in the BookBits catalog.