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What you need to know about hidden markets to get lucky in love, work, and life

Fast Company

Below, Judd Kessler shares five key insights from his new book, Lucky by Design: The Hidden Economics You Need to Get More of What You Want.

Judd is an award-winning professor of economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research and writing have been featured in leading media, such as The New York TimesThe Wall Street JournalScientific American, and Harvard Business Review, among others. For his work on organ allocation, Kessler was named one of the “30 under 30” in Law and Policy by Forbes. He has been researching market design for the past 15 years.

Life is full of hidden markets quietly deciding who gets what—and learning their rules is the real competitive edge. See the system, play it strategically, and you can manufacture your own luck.