How our lives are shaped not only by the choices we make, but by the choices we
have.In many parts of life - jobs, housing, medical care, education, even a date
on the internet - price is not the only determinant of who gets what. So how do
the other processes that influence who gets which goods, jobs, university place
s and partners really work?In 'Who Gets What', Nobel Prize winning economist Alv
in Roth uncovers the global rules of how markets allocate, how matchmaking shape
s lives, where markets exist that we may not even realise, and how everything ab
out our biggest experiences - from getting accepted at university or living wher
e we want - can be better understood and negotiated when one understands the des
ign of those matching markets. The distribution of rewards is often unfair, but
it's seldom as random as it seems, and Roth reveals just how much of our life ta
kes place in marketplaces, and leads us to a new understanding of who gets what
and why.For fans of 'Freakonomics' and 'Thinking Fast and Slow' this groundbreak
ing book sheds new light on the politics of free markets, and how many things th
at we choose in life also must choose us.
