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Sebbillows @sebbillows.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

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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Georg Rilinger @rilinger.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Thanks for the excellent review!!

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Georg Rilinger @rilinger.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

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Georg Rilinger @rilinger.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Empirically, the paper demonstrates the argument by showing how the modular division of labor among designers of auction markets for electricity in California persistently created new opportunities and incentives for destructive gaming. The paper expands on themes from my book, Failure by Design

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Georg Rilinger @rilinger.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

create incentives and opportunities for gaming behavior that are difficult to detect. Given that the coordination requirements of digital markets differ from traditional organizations, I suggest that we likely need new theories to explain success and failure of this kind of digital coordination.

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Georg Rilinger @rilinger.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

builds and manages the market. Here, I find, that a standard recommendation for designing platform systems - modularization - is actually at odds with the logic of coordination in digital markets. Rather than enable designers to control the system's complexity, modular divisions of labor tend to

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Georg Rilinger @rilinger.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

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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Market Design as Organizational Problem: Explaining System Failures in Platform Markets | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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Georg Rilinger @rilinger.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

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Georg Rilinger @rilinger.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

An organizational sociology of digital markets offers both - and would allow us to talk about distributional outcomes in these markets in ways that don’t reduce to what applied economists are already doing. What do you think?

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Georg Rilinger @rilinger.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I think this is a particularly interesting direction for future research as classic questions about the social dynamics in markets have been somewhat exhausted and economic sociology needs a new paradigm that doesn’t just push against an outdated view of neoclassic economics.

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Georg Rilinger @rilinger.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

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.

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Algorithmic Management and the Social Order of Digital Markets - Theory and Society

Platform companies use techniques of algorithmic management to control their users. Though digital marketplaces vary in their use of these techniques, few studies have asked why. This question is theo...

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Georg Rilinger @rilinger.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I'd like to be added as well. Thank you!

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