Sublime

The essential job of an Internet service like Airbnb is to build what Alvin E. Roth, the economist whose work on labor marketplaces earned him the Nobel Prize, calls a “thick marketplace,” a critical mass of consumers and producers, readers and writers, or buyers and sellers.

In a seminal 1981 paper, the economist Sherwin Rosen worked out the mathematics behind these “winner-take-all” markets.

At university, he had been learning about game theory and now it came in handy.

POAPs,

Gale-Shapley ‘deferred acceptance’ algorithm,

There frankly is a hell of a lot of value in the game theory and economics literature.