Showing posts with label Argentina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Argentina. Show all posts
Sunday, June 2, 2024

Kidney Exchange in Latin America and the Caribbean

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 Kidney exchange isn't yet thriving in Latin America, but the basic infrastructure is in place. It would make a lot of sense to jumpstar...
Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Argentine presidential politics, and monetary markets for kidneys

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  The Financial Times reports on the surprising primary election performance of a far right candidate, Javier Milei. Argentina radical right...
Monday, March 20, 2023

Victor Elias (1937-2023)

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Victor Elias died last week, at 85.  He had a strong influence on academic economics in Argentina, not least through the many influential Ar...
Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Donate blood or organs to pay a traffic fine or shorten a prison term?

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I spend a lot of my time thinking and writing about repugnant transactions and controversial markets, and some of that intersects with my wo...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

Depreciated currency

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I'm flying home today from Argentina, where I took part in the TTS2022 international transplant conference.   I had to change dollars t...
Monday, September 12, 2022

Access to transplantation around the world, at the International Congress of The Transplantation Society (TTS 2022) in Buenos Aires

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I'm attending the 29th International Congress of The Transplantation Society ( TTS 2022) | Buenos Aires - Argentina, and will speak in ...
Thursday, July 21, 2022

Gender neutral words in gendered languages

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Novel pronouns haven't been widely adopted in English, but committees now have chairs or chairpersons, and there are some attempts not m...
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

An unusual Argentine presidential candidate supports a monetary market for kidneys

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 The right-wing Argentine politician,  Javier Milei, who describes himself as an anarcho-capitalist (but who the Washington Post thinks has ...
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Repugnance and market design in translation: video and transcript (en español, en argentina)

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  I recently was interviewed by Jorge Fontevecchia via Zoom in Argentina. Among other things, we spoke (in English) about how both markets a...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

Access and transparency in transplantation at the TTS 2022 meeting in September

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  Covid-permitting, I'll be flying to Buenos Aires in September to participate in person in the 2022 international meeting of The Transp...
Thursday, February 8, 2018

Laura Doval on kidney exchange in Argentina

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Laura Doval , a market designer who teaches at Cal Tech and who hails from Argentina, has an article in FOCO ECONÓMICO about some of the ma...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Kidney exchange authorized in Argentina

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A judicially-authorized kidney exchange already took place in Argentina (involving a well known journalist, Jorge Lanata), but now, Julio E...
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Friday, November 25, 2016

An interview in the Buenas Aires Herald (in English): "All market design is political"

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I went to Argentina hopeful that I could get some insight there into our new president-elect, since they have had a lot of experience with ...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

My talk at UCEMA in Buenos Aires (video)

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On my visit to Argentina my first talk (of 5) was at UCEMA, on November 16. You can see some pictures  here . Here is a video of my talk,...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Kidney exchange talk at INCUCAI in Buenos Aires

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On my visit to Argentina last week I gave a talk Wednesday on kidney exchange at the Argentine transplant coordination authority  INCUCAI ,...
Sunday, November 20, 2016

Visit to Tucuman, Argentina, where there may be prospects for kidney exchange

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During my visit to Argentina, my host, Julio Elias , arranged a number of talks and meetings which I'll report on as I get organized.  ...