Alvin E. Roth Current Affairs, GK & News

2012 Nobel for Economics to Roth and Shapley of U.S.

Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley of U.S. have been awarded the Nobel economics prize for studies on the match-making that takes place when doctors are coupled up with hospitals; students with schools; and human organs with transplant recipients. As per Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, their research has sparked a “flourishing field of research” and ..

Topics: Alvin E. Roth • Awards • Economists • Fellows of the Econometric Society • Lloyd Shapley • Organ transplantation • Science and technology in the United States