Alvin E. Roth
Alvin Elliot Roth (born December 18, 1951) is an American economist who is a visiting professor at Stanford University and George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration (on leave) at Harvard Business School. He plans to take up a permanent position at Stanford at the beginning of 2013.
Roth has made significant contributions to the fields of game theory, market design and experimental economics, and is known for his emphasis on applying his economic theory to solutions for "real-world" problems.
In 2012, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Lloyd Shapley "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design".
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“Only in America ... do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles—and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn’t their fault they were given a gift like speech—look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.”
—Philip Roth (b. 1933)