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"Market Design as Organizational Problem: Explaining System Failures in Platform Markets."
Rilinger, Georg. American Journal of Sociology Vol. 130, No. 5 (2025): 1065-1112.Failure by Design.
Rilinger, Georg (2025 Winner of the Section on Economic Sociology’s Viviana Zelizer Best Book Award). Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2024. Cato Institute Review. Social Forces Review."Algorithmic Management and the Social Order of Digital Markets."
Rilinger, Georg. Theory and Society (2024).Failure by Design
In my book Failure By Design, I examine the origins of the California energy crisis of 2000/01 to explore the practical limits of market design.
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