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You may have heard the news that two American economists – Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson – recently won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences "for improvements to auction theory and inventions of ...

Stanford University’s Alvin Roth (pictured) and UCLA’s Lloyd Shapley were given the Nobel prize “for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design”. AAP The Nobel prize for ...