The Evolution of the Labor Market for Medical Interns and Residents: A Case Study in Game Theory
回顾了美国医学实习生和住院医师劳动力市场的历史变迁，运用博弈论分析当前市场为何能稳定运行，而早期尝试却充满混乱，并探讨了该市场面临的当代问题。
The organization of the labor market for medical interns and residents underwent a number of changes before taking its present form in 1951. The record of these changes and the problems that prompted them provides an unusual opportunity to study the forces at work in markets of this kind. The present paper begins with a brief history and then presents a game-theoretic analysis to explain the orderly operation and longevity of the current market, in contrast to the turmoil that characterized various earlier short-lived attempts to organize the market. An analysis is also given of some contemporary problems facing the market. A subsidiary theme of the paper concerns the history of ideas: the problems encountered in the organization of this market, and some of the solutions arrived at, anticipated the discussion of such issues in the literature of economics and game theory.