How Food Banks Use Markets to Feed the Poor
描述了Feeding America如何从集中排队系统转向基于虚拟货币的市场机制，每年向全美200多家食品银行分配约3亿磅食品，并展示了这一变化如何让食品银行根据自身偏好进行排序。
A difficult issue for organizations is how to assign valuable resources across competing opportunities. This work describes how Feeding America allocates about 300 million pounds of food a year to over two hundred food banks across the United States. It does so in an unusual way: in 2005, it switched from a centralized queuing system, where food banks would wait their turn, to a market based mechanism where they bid daily on truckloads of food using a “fake” currency called shares. The change and its impact are described here, showing how the market system allowed food banks to sort based on their preferences.