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Re:How a matchmaking algorithm saved lives by davidw on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @09:50PM (#11172036)
Pretty powerful stuff. Puts paid to the notion that economics is "not real" or all handwaving, as you sometimes read here.
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Re:How a matchmaking algorithm saved lives by lostmsu on Thursday February 25, 2016 @12:36AM (#11172586)
Not sure this particular algorithm has anything to do about economics, except its author is an economist.
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Re:How a matchmaking algorithm saved lives by Kalium on Thursday February 25, 2016 @12:39AM (#11172595)
Matchmaking is arguably the core of economics.
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Re:How a matchmaking algorithm saved lives by cschmidt on Thursday February 25, 2016 @09:16AM (#11174509)
It seems to have been often studied by Economists in the area of game theory. This very nice book is by two of them:

http://www.amazon.com/Two-Sided-Matching-Game-Theoretic-Econ...

To be fair, it is also studied by computer scientists, as in the other main book on the stable marriage:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Stable-Marriage-Problem-Foundation...

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Re:How a matchmaking algorithm saved lives by tamana on Thursday February 25, 2016 @11:24AM (#11175449)
macroeconomics is all handwaving
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