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2 U.S. economic matchmakers win Nobel

By KARL RITTER AND PAUL WISEMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted: October 16, 2012 at 5 a.m.

Two American scholars won the Nobel economics prize Monday for work on matchmaking — how to pair doctors with hospitals, students with schools, kidneys with transplant recipients and even men with women in marriage.

Nobel economics prize winner: 'It's a great honor'

Two American scholars were awarded the Nobel economics prize Monday for studies on the match-making that takes place when doctors are coupled up with hospitals, students with schools and human organs with transplant recipients.
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