October 11, 2009
Britain's Central Planning Death Panels
October 11, 2009
Free Market M.D.
October 11, 2009
Economies of Scale in Compliance
October 11, 2009
Balan's Challenge
October 10, 2009
The Pleasure of Telling Others What to Do
October 10, 2009
Gonick the Great - and How He Could Have Been Greater
October 9, 2009
More Scott Sumner
October 9, 2009
Not From The Onion
October 9, 2009
Thoughts on a Second Stimulus
If you listen carefully at the end of the introduction, Al Roth says to the introducer, "Thanks, Hal." It is none other than Hal Varian.
Al Roth also has an article in the October 2007 issue of the Harvard Business Review, covering the same general topics.
Here is an earlier lecture given by Al Roth at Boston University, covering similar topics in market design.
Hal Varian--the new chief economist for Google.
Al Roth is a smart guy, it's always pleasant to listen to his speech.
http://www.astra-design.com
My economist boss decided that mech. design was not really a field in its own right and didn't deserve much attention or Nobel prizes and could only point out the obvious. I should email him this link...I thought it was really neat to think about designing markets and how to go about getting it right is completely in the realm of mech. design and is apparently very difficult, complex, and challenging.
I ask some questions in that video. (And I also now work for Hal).