Alvin E. Roth quotes

I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better. (Alvin E. Roth)
Some say economics has all kinds of good tools and techniques, but it has an absence of interesting problems. I look around the world, and I see all kinds of interesting, important problems we ought to solve with the tools we have. View quote
Alvin E. Roth
I gravitated to economics because I'm interested in how people coordinate and collaborate with each other. Economics studies all the ways people get along with each other. View quote
Alvin E. Roth
When you're doing kidney transplants, you have to find out who can exchange kidneys with whom, doing blood tests to make sure it's true. You can't just work on the preliminary data. Then you have to organize the logistics. View quote
Alvin E. Roth
Maybe we could think of science as being like a nuclear chain reaction in which people and ideas bounce off each other, and if critical mass is reached, a new field is formed. View quote
Alvin E. Roth
Market design is about understanding the details of markets in sufficient detail so that we can help fix them when they are broken. View quote
Alvin E. Roth
Experimental economics is about conducting experiments: bringing economics into the laboratory or creating controlled conditions in the field that allow us to understand better what we are seeing in less controlled circumstances. View quote
Alvin E. Roth
Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it. View quote
Alvin E. Roth