Here's the book review that came out of all this: econsoc.mpifg.de/50610/econso... (p. 19-21). Thanks again to @rilinger.bsky.social for an excellent read and to the Andalucian people for their hospitality during the black out.

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I am very excited to see "Market Design as Organizational Problem" out at AJS: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1.... How do we explain systemic levels of destructive behavior in platform markets (system failures)? I suggest that we should focus on the organization that

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In doi.org/10.1007/s111... I show that we can explain variation in the operation of digital markets by looking at the design work in the companies building these platforms. There is a whole frontier of research about the organizational dynamics behind failures in digital markets.