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    Episode 769: Speed Dating For Economists

    We visit a job market created by economists, for economists. It's a hyper-efficient, optimized system, tested by game theorists, tweaked by a Nobel Prize winner, but it requires comfortable shoes.
    by Adrian Ma May 05, 2017 1 minute
    Economists have a yearly job market that works a little bit like speed dating.

    About 1,800 economics graduate students converged on the chilly Chicago streets in early January. Some of them ran through those streets,

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