This book shows how our lives are shaped not only by the choices we make but by the choices we have From dating school & university applications to the job market understand the most important decisions you'll ever make with insights from a Nobel Prize-winner Who Gets What & Why is a piquantly written mind-expanding exploration of the markets that matter most to many of us If you've ever sought a job or hired someone applied to university or guided your child into a good school asked someone out on a date or been asked out you have participated in a matching market They are everywhere around us & account for some of the biggest technological successes of the decade like Uber & Airbnb Matching markets can even be the gatekeeper of life itself guiding how desperately ill patients receive scarce organs for transplants Alvin E Roth shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in economics for his pioneering research into market design
- the principles that govern all kinds of markets where money isn't the only factor in determining who gets what His book reveals what factors make these markets work well
- or badly
- & shows us all how to recognise a good match & make smarter more confident decisions