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My name is Georg Rilinger and I am an Assistant Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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My name is Georg Rilinger and I am an Assistant Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\t\t

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\"Market Design as Organizational Problem: Explaining System Failures in Platform Markets.\"<\/a><\/h4> Rilinger, Georg. American Journal of Sociology<\/i> Vol. 130, No. 5 (2025): 1065-1112.\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Failure by Design.<\/i><\/a><\/h4> Rilinger, Georg (2025 Winner of the Section on Economic Sociology\u2019s Viviana Zelizer Best Book Award). Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2024. Cato Institute Review<\/a>. Social Forces Review<\/a>.\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\"Algorithmic Management and the Social Order of Digital Markets.\"<\/a><\/h4> Rilinger, Georg. Theory and Society<\/i> (2024).\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>

Failure by Design<\/h2>

In my book Failure By Design<\/em>, I examine the origins of the California energy crisis of 2000\/01 to explore the practical limits of market design.
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