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• Article | ACM SIGecom Exchanges

  Good Markets (Really Do) Make Good Neighbors

  Scott Duke Kominers

  This article gives a (very) brief exposition of what market design is, along with four examples of market design in action. Loosely themed after Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall,” the examples demonstrate ways in which market design can break barriers—physical, political, and/or metaphorical. Each example also illustrates one of four broader classes of ways that market design can create positive change: marketplace mechanism (re-)design, information provision, (re-)shaping the extensive margin, and market(place) creation.

  Keywords: Market Design; Economics; Theory; Change; Society;

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  Kominers, Scott Duke. "Good Markets (Really Do) Make Good Neighbors." ACM SIGecom Exchanges 16, no. 2 (June 2018).  View Details

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• Article | Bloomberg Opinion

  Math Geeks Must Wait 100 Years for a Day Like This

  Scott Duke Kominers

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  Kominers, Scott Duke. "Math Geeks Must Wait 100 Years for a Day Like This." Bloomberg Opinion (June 1, 2018).  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | June 2018

  Feeding America (A)

  Scott Duke Kominers and Alan Lam

  This case describes how Feeding America, the third-largest nonprofit organization in the US, designed a marketplace for allocating donated food across its network of food banks. It considers the promises and pitfalls of using market-based allocation in the context of a centralized artificial currency market, and evaluates the importance of different design components in making the marketplace efficient and fair for all participants.

  Keywords: Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Food; Resource Allocation; Fairness; Performance Efficiency; United States;

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  Kominers, Scott Duke, and Alan Lam. "Feeding America (A)." Harvard Business School Case 818-130, June 2018.  View Details

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