Alvin E. Roth

Economist

1951-12-18

Alvin E. Roth is an American economist known for work in game theory and market design. He shared the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Lloyd Shapley for work on stable allocations and market design. He has held faculty positions at Stanford University and Harvard University.

Quotes by Alvin E. Roth

My Ph.D. is in operations research. I was interested in making things work better and using mathematics to help do that. So operations research is what I studied as an undergraduate and graduate student.
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It turns out that a Nobel is also followed by other recognitions, and perhaps the most unexpected of these is that the Japan Karate Association in Tokyo has now made me an honorary 7th-degree black belt, something that, given my athletic abilities, is even more unimaginable than being an Economic Sciences Laureate.
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