market design
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Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
by Alvin E. Roth · 1 Jun 2015 · 282pp · 80,907 words
AND FASTER The Match: Strong Medicine for New Doctors Back to School Signaling FORBIDDEN MARKETS AND FREE MARKETS Repugnant, Forbidden . . . and Designed Free Markets and Market Design Notes Index About the Author Copyright © 2015 by Alvin E. Roth All rights reserved For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write
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© Getty Images Author photograph © Economics Department, Stanford University eISBN 978-0-544-28839-3 v1.0515 To Ben and Aaron, Emilie, and Ted Acknowledgments Market design is a team sport, so I owe a great debt to all those who have worked on the markets reported here, many of whom are
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generally. That’s what this book is about. Along with a handful of colleagues around the world, I’ve helped create the new discipline of market design. Market design helps solve problems that existing marketplaces haven’t been able to solve naturally. Our work gives us new insights into what really makes “free markets
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“game the system.” Well-designed matching processes try to take into account the fact that participants are making strategic decisions. Sometimes the goal of the market designer is to reduce the need to game the system, allowing choosers to concentrate on identifying their true needs and desires. Other times the goal is
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also be designed, sometimes from scratch but often after trial and error leads to a market failure. Much of what we’ve learned about market design—and from market design about markets more generally—has come from observing market failures and figuring out how to fix them. Not all markets grow like weeds; some
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in which professional tasters sample and grade each lot put up for sale. (By the way, there was also some thoughtful market design that went into the rules—that is, the market design—involved in organizing quality grading. For example, tasting must be “blind”; the tasters can’t know whose beans they’re tasting
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of kidney exchanges—in which I played a major role—touches on almost every subject I will discuss in the chapters to come, about how market design has to solve problems related to incentives, thickness, congestion, and timing, and how some kinds of transactions can be widely seen as repugnant. In
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that hospitals earn revenue on their transplants; they’re commercial enterprises as well as caregivers. Speaking of commerce, sometimes when I explain all of the market design, computer programming, and medical politicking that’s required to bring about kidney exchanges, someone—sometimes a fellow economist—will tell me that buying and selling
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match. Playing Well Together The problems that are presently keeping kidney exchange from expanding to its full potential don’t come as a complete surprise. Market design, after all, isn’t just about understanding markets and figuring out how to organize them better. Politics is involved, too. I’m not thinking
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organizational. The political and organizational issues have in many ways proved harder to address than the computational ones, and are at least as important for market design. The harsh reality is that hospitals have trouble coordinating with one another because they’re also competing for patients. This has made it difficult for
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get transplants. For any market to work well, its marketplaces have to solve all those problems, although the solutions will be different for different markets. Market design has another essential aspect, which has to do with human behavior. In recent years, behavioral economists have upended traditional economic assumptions by noticing that people
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aren’t relentlessly calculating and purely self-interested, and market designers will miss good opportunities if they forget that. Consider non-directed kidney donors. If everyone acted purely out of self-interest (as old-school economic
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kidney after their loved one has received one—yet very few do. Each stage in the design of kidney exchange has involved adjustments in the market design—a sort of dance between the mathematical models; the surgical logistics; and the patient, doctor, and hospital incentives, risks, and rewards. When we originally
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and chains became possible, long nonsimultaneous chains would grow to play such an important role. Each of these developments involved a modification of the market design in response to changes in the conditions of the market and the behavior of the participants. The general lesson to keep in mind as we
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matchup of the top two teams. Once again the postseason ended without producing a consensus national champion. In retrospect, it’s clear that several problematic market design features prevented good bowl matches. Because the Rose Bowl dealt with only two conferences, these conference champions risked not being ranked close to each other
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the incentives to determine bowl matchups before the final rankings were known. They did this through a series of incremental, almost yearly reorganizations of the market, designed to make more teams available to be matched after the regular season—that is, to make the postseason market thicker. One way to do this
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encounter when you’re still far from your destination. Our solution to the problem of hiring new gastroenterologists highlights one of the crucial facts about market design: successful designs depend greatly on the details of the market, including the culture and psychology of the participants. In the years that followed, we
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were also prevailed upon to stop making exploding offers, which allowed some clearinghouses to be organized in orthopedic subspecialties. Orthopedic surgeons needed a somewhat different market design than gastroenterologists to fix similar market failures because the two professions had distinctly different cultures. But in each case, they were able to find a
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at the Chicago Board of Trade, there’s another marketplace, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. And near them both, at the University of Chicago, an innovative market designer named Eric Budish (a former student of mine) has been thinking about high-speed trading at both exchanges. Budish is looking at the growing use
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their long-standing structural problems. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is a lot like the New York Stock Exchange. For one thing, they both have similar market designs: trades are made via a continuous electronic limit order book, which records the offers to buy (bids) and the offers to sell (asks) starting
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(And this idea has been endorsed by the New York State attorney general.) But in the absence of sufficient pressure by regulators, a brand-new market design is seldom adopted before a market becomes so dysfunctional that its users grow desperate for something new (or until an entrepreneurial market maker sees a
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s not clear whether the financial markets have reached that state of dysfunction yet. As the tale of these financial markets makes clear, a superior market design isn’t always implemented. Building a better mousetrap isn’t always rewarded when the mice have a say in the matter. Financial markets are
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ve built, let’s talk more about safety. 7 Too Risky: Trust, Safety, and Simplicity MAKING MARKETS SAFE is one of the oldest problems of market design, going back to well before the invention of agriculture, when hunters traded the ax heads and arrowheads that archaeologists today find thousands of miles from
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to making Internet markets trustworthy and secure are constantly evolving (in part because the bad guys are clever and adaptive themselves). Up to this point, market designs for trustworthiness have focused on providing secure methods to make payments, providing insurance for transactions that go bad, and building feedback systems that allow reliable
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of the ratings. Suddenly it appeared—surprise!—that not everyone was thrilled with every transaction. Here eBay’s experience revealed yet another principle of good market design. Markets depend on reliable information. In the case of reputation, buyers want reliable information about a seller, in the form of information about other
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New York schools was congestion. The fact that it wasn’t safe for families to reveal their preferences seemed secondary. By comparison, solving Boston’s market design problem was more like treating a patient with high blood pressure. That’s a dangerous disease, too, but its symptoms are more subtle. Unlike
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solutions. PART III DESIGN INVENTIONS TO MAKE MARKETS SMARTER, THICKER, AND FASTER 8 The Match: Strong Medicine for New Doctors THE SOLUTIONS TO problems in market design are sometimes invented, sometimes discovered, and often a bit of both. The designs for many markets have evolved, usually through trial and error, over the
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notice that good candidates might be available before or after the Match). The medical administrators responsible for the Match tried to make changes in their market design that would accommodate the needs of couples better. In the 1970s, these efforts took the form of having each member of the couple first
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acceptance algorithm was adapted to fit New York school choice. It’s worth mentioning a few of these simplifications, because details matter so much in market design. Just as the medical Match had some special features (including couples looking for two jobs), so, too, does New York school choice. Also, school
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to call us for help. Indeed, since founding the nonprofit Institute for Innovation in Public School Choice, Neil Dorosin has become the Johnny Appleseed of market design for school choice. With support from Atila, Parag, and me, IIPSC has helped design school choice mechanisms for Denver and New Orleans and has
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people to communicate essential information they might otherwise have kept to themselves. But sometimes markets suffer from too much communication. It is a paradox of market design that as communication gets easier and cheaper, it sometimes also gets less informative. We are seeing this ever more clearly as communication becomes more electronic
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In a somewhat similar way, the widespread repugnance toward cash for kidneys, together with the equally universal shortage of kidneys, presents a big challenge for market design. The only country in which it is legal to buy and sell kidneys from living donor/sellers is the Islamic Republic of Iran. Legal markets
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the repugnance toward interest on loans in Iran by financing a purchase with the proceeds from the sale of your kidney.) Kidney exchange is a market design invention that succeeded in increasing the number of transplants through in-kind exchange of a kidney for a kidney, without running afoul of repugnance.
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cash compensation. There has been a good deal of thinking about how some of the worst fears about compensating donors might be avoided with appropriate market design. For example, the concern that only the rich could afford kidneys might be addressed by amending the current outright ban on purchases to allow purchases
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have a similar optimism about being able to successfully change laws that forbid kidney sales just about everywhere. If cash markets for kidneys remain repugnant, market design still offers ways to expand the pool of possible donors without having to take on that repugnance directly. For a start, we could learn about
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its franchisees to introduce new products for health-conscious consumers more slowly than individual franchisees in California might like. Good and Bad Design While good market designs may emerge slowly over time as old rules and regulations are modified, bad designs can persist for a long time. To give an analogy from
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new markets. These are opportunities to treasure, to study, to approach with humility, and to monitor with care. Markets are human artifacts, not natural phenomena. Market design gives us a chance to maintain and improve some of humanity’s most ancient, essential inventions. Notes 1. INTRODUCTION: EVERY MARKET TELLS A STORY [>] who
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lecture.html. 2. MARKETS FOR BREAKFAST AND THROUGH THE DAY [>] sold “by sample”: See Jonathan Levin and Paul Milgrom, “Online Advertising: Heterogeneity and Conflation in Market Design,” American Economic Review 100, no. 2 (May 2010): 603–7. [>] Credit cards offered merchants: Credit cards are sometimes referred to by economists as “two-sided
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Medical Association proposing a two-way kidney exchange algorithm that looked a lot like the one we had proposed, but that ignored the elements of market design that made it safe for patients and surgeons to participate. They proposed that a national exchange should be limited to two-way transactions, even
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computer scientists who took up the challenge was Tuomas Sandholm, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. A graduate student of his, David Abraham, took a market design course that Utku was teaching at the University of Pittsburgh. Together with a third computer scientist, Avrim Blum, they figured out how to perform the
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[>] markets run only once: See Eric B. Budish, Peter Cramton, and John J. Shim, “The High-Frequency Trading Arms Race: Frequent Batch Auctions as a Market Design Response” (working paper, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, December 2013). [>] a better design: There may, of course, be other changes in the current
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PayPal and again become two companies, which is happening as I write this in 2014. [>] a new feedback system: You can read about the careful market design and testing that went into eBay’s decision to redesign its feedback system in Gary Bolton, Ben Greiner, and Axel Ockenfels, “Engineering Trust: Reciprocity
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see Peter Coles, John H. Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, and John J. Siegfried, “The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 24, no. 4 (Fall 2010): 187–206. [>] The experiment allowed: Soohyung Lee and Muriel Niederle, “Propose with a Rose? Signaling
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disease in Africa, see Saraladevi Naicker, “End-Stage Renal Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Ethnicity & Disease 19, no. 1 (2009): 13. 12. FREE MARKETS AND MARKET DESIGN [>] tablecloths: I recall discussing tablecloths as an indicator of restaurant types years ago with my late colleague Gerald Salancik, at the University of Illinois. [>] The
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hybrid of, 148–49 in psychology job market, 242 Delmonico, Frank, 36, 37, 43–44, 49, 50, 147–48, 207 democracy, 166, 203 design. See market design diabetes, 38–39, 42 dialysis, 41, 42, 51, 208, 211 differentiation, 18–20 Diners Club, 23 dormitory room allocation, 35 Dorosin, Neil, 161, 165
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144–49 empowerment of applicants in, 76–78 gastroenterologist fellowships, 75–78 orthopedic surgeons, 78–80 rural vs. urban, 149–50 resource allocation, 4 restaurants market designs for, 217–20 reservations for, 105 safety of, 220–22 signaling by, 181 risk. See safety of market participation; simplicity; trust Road to Serfdom, The
Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America's Favorite Food
by Steve Striffler · 24 Jul 2007 · 208pp · 51,277 words
chicken has been only partially about consumer demand for “convenience foods.” Engineering and Marketing Chicken Processed chicken is a product of food engineering and clever marketing, designed to combat a problem that has plagued the industry from its inception: Chicken in its most basic form is simply not that profitable. Historically, profit
Efficiently Inefficient: How Smart Money Invests and Market Prices Are Determined
by Lasse Heje Pedersen · 12 Apr 2015 · 504pp · 139,137 words
of Financial Studies 22, 2201–2238. Budish, Eric, Peter Cramton, and John Shim (2013), “The High-Frequency Trading Arms Race: Frequent Batch Auctions as a Market Design Response,” working paper, University of Chicago. Buraschi, Andrea, Robert Kosowski, and Worrawat Sritrakul (2014), “Incentives and Endogenous Risk Taking: A Structural View on Hedge Fund
Where Does Money Come From?: A Guide to the UK Monetary & Banking System
by Josh Ryan-Collins, Tony Greenham, Richard Werner and Andrew Jackson · 14 Apr 2012
to which commercial bank money is effectively regulated. We analyse how the Bank of England attempts to conduct monetary policy through interventions in the money markets designed to move the price of money (the interest rate) and through its direct dealings with banks. This section also includes a review of the financial
The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink
by Michael Blanding · 14 Jun 2010 · 385pp · 133,839 words
you anticipating customers’ needs and at what point are you creating them? Coke didn’t dwell on the ques tion long. For each attribute, the marketers designed a different ad, rolling them all together in a new campaign under the slogan “Always Coca-Cola” (which had the delicious double entendre of harkening
No One Succeeds Alone
by Robert Reffkin · 4 May 2021 · 210pp · 62,278 words
an investor in Asia, a software engineer in Seattle, a newly hired real estate agent in Miami, my eldest daughter Raia on FaceTime, a junior marketing designer in New York, and a reporter from the Wall Street Journal—all in a single hour. And for each conversation, I adapt. People throughout my
Irrational Exuberance: With a New Preface by the Author
by Robert J. Shiller · 15 Feb 2000 · 319pp · 106,772 words
strength of the argument for investing in the market against their wealth and their perceived need for money to spend now. Quantitative Anchors for the Market Designers of questionnaires have learned that the answers people give can be heavily influenced by suggestions that are given on the P S YCH O L
Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters
by Joanna Walsh · 22 Sep 2025 · 255pp · 80,203 words
position of the artist. It becomes troubling when photography steals the soul of the real, and challenging when a ‘readymade’ uses human creations – anonymous mass-market design – direct (soup cans, Brillo boxes, R. Mutt’s urinal). But it is even more disturbing when the artist appropriates the aesthetic act of a – sometimes
On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
by Emily Guendelsberger · 15 Jul 2019 · 382pp · 114,537 words
Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty The Economics of Inequality, Thomas Piketty Who Gets What—and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design, Alvin E. Roth Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics, Richard H. Thaler Notes Introduction 1. Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne, “The Future of
Roads and Bridges
by Nadia Eghbal · 139pp · 35,022 words
to sustain larger projects, including writing, project management, and outreach. Open source projects are not dissimilar from other types of organizations, including startups, where administration, marketing, design, and other roles are needed to support an organization’s raw output. It is partially because open source culture is so heavily weighted to developers
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(me) some of them are totally out of reach. [Kickstarter] only works if you either go viral or hire someone to do all of the marketing/design/promotions….Turning a project into a business is great too, but...these are all things that take away from development (which is the part I
Thinking in Bets
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Lights Out in Wonderland
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Topics in Market Microstructure
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Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems
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New World, Inc.
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The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance
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Empirical Market Microstructure: The Institutions, Economics and Econometrics of Securities Trading
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Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge
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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
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Other People's Money: Masters of the Universe or Servants of the People?
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The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes
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The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System
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Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
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The Paypal Wars: Battles With Ebay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth
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Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
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Inside the Nudge Unit: How Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference
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Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve And/or Ruin Everything
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This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
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Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
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Markets, State, and People: Economics for Public Policy
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The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters
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Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy
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A History of Modern Britain
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The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
by Daniel Yergin · 14 May 2011 · 1,373pp · 300,577 words
Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners
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Smart Grid Standards
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The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future
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The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor, and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car
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Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
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Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success
by Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown · 24 Apr 2017 · 344pp · 96,020 words
The Connected Company
by Dave Gray and Thomas Vander Wal · 2 Dec 2014 · 372pp · 89,876 words
The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them—And They Shape Us
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The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth
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The Future of Technology
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What's Mine Is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption Is Changing the Way We Live
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The Great Fragmentation: And Why the Future of All Business Is Small
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Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet
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Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World
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Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market
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Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (And What to Do About It)
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Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back
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Against Intellectual Monopoly
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The Self-Made Billionaire Effect: How Extreme Producers Create Massive Value
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The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
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