Friday, September 6, 2013
Alvin E. Roth Econ 490 Blog
Alvin E. Roth is an American economist born in 1951. He graduated from Columbia University in 1971with a degree in operations research. Then in 1973 and 1974, he would achieve his masters and PhD in operations at Stanford University. He would then go on to teach at a number of schools, including the University of Illinois, before finally settling in at Stanford University and Harvard as an Economics professor. He has made contributions in game theory, market design, and experimental economics. In 2012, he shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic science for theories in stable allocations and market design.
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Al Roth was in the Business Administration department when he was here at Illinois but also had a zero-time appointment in the Economics department. He became a good friend of mine soon after I came to Illinois in fall 1980. A bunch of us would go for a walk after lunch and frequently end up getting an ice cream cone on Green Street, where there used to be a Baskin-Robbins.
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