This year's Nobel Prize winners in economics are none other than Al Roth and Lloyd Shapley. Both have done influential work using mathematical algorithms to design more efficient markets, and their work can be applied from everything from labor markets to kidney exchange.
You can read all about these two and the prize announcement here, here, and here. Or, for a more personal version, you can check out Steve Levitt's post about the announcement on his Freakonomics blog.
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