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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Friday, March 8, 2024

Dr. Guy Alexandre (1934-2024), gave birth to brain death in deceased organ transplantation

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The father of brain death has died. Here's the NYT obit. Guy Alexandre, Transplant Surgeon Who Redefined Death, Dies at 89 . His willi...

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Brain death for organ donation, and its relation to controversy about abortion

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Here's a summary of the current discussion of brain death (and its possible connection to the debate on whether a fetus is a living per...

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Peter Singer on brain death

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Here's Peter Singer's op-ed in the Washington Post on the debate over brain death, presently used to decide when deceased donor or...

Thursday, April 13, 2023

Brain Death

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Before there was the possibility of organ transplantation, determining that someone was dead could be a relatively leisurely affair. But t...

Thursday, April 18, 2019

Dead pigs and live brain cells--with implications still to be understood

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Dramatic scientific announcements get press coverage before they are well (or at all) understood, but that can still be exciting. Here'...

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