Lloyd Shapley shares the 2012 Prize in Economic Sciences with Alvin Roth for the theory of stable allocations and market design. His game-theoretic work, including the Gale Shapley matching algorithm, supplied a foundation for pairing participants without incentives to abandon their assigned matches.
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Lloyd Shapley
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