Science at the Prague Castle: Who Gets What? The New Economics of Matching and Market Design
Science-popularizing lecture from the series Science at the Prague Castle, that took place 7 May 2025 at the Prague Castle. Speaker: Alvin Roth, the Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the George Gund Professor Emeritus of Economics and Business Administration at Harvard. He shared the 2012 Nobel memorial prize in Economics. He was President of the American Economic Association in 2017, and is a member of the National Academy of Science. He directed the redesign of the National Resident Matching Program, through which most American doctors find their first employment. He helped design the school choice systems used in several large American cities. He is one of the organizers and designers of kidney exchange in the United States, which helps incompatible patient-donor pairs find compatible kidneys for transplantation.