Market Design

I'll post market design related news and items about repugnant markets. See also my Stanford profile. I have a general-interest book on market design: Who Gets What--and Why The subtitle is "The new economics of matchmaking and market design."

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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Repugnant sales of art: deaccessioning, in Switzerland

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"Deaccessioning" is a repugnant transaction in the art world, in which it's often considered acceptable to sell art only to f...

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Same sex marriage now legal in Switzerland, by popular referendum

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The BBC has the story (it happened last month, but I wasn't paying attention): Switzerland same-sex marriage: Two-thirds of voters bac...

Monday, May 3, 2021

Can heroin be used responsibly? Is the war on drugs worse than the crime?

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The psychologist Carl Hart , who studies drug addiction, has a book in which he describes his own careful use of heroin, and suggests that ...

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Swiss voters approve ban on face coverings

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Here's a headlne from the NY Times that surprised me, until I realized that the Swiss aren't banning pandemic protective gear, but a...

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Frequencies of medically assisted death, in jurisdictions where it is legal

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From the Lancet: Regulation of assisted suicide limits the number of assisted deaths Gian Domenico Borasio, Ralf J Jox, Claudia Gamondi ...

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