Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Monday, November 11, 2024

Practical market design makes policy recommendations (which can violate NBER publication policy)

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The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) publishes a widely read series of working papers, before publication in refereed journals. T...
Monday, October 14, 2024

Nobel prize in economics to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson

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  " The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nob...
Monday, March 25, 2024

Anger and Sadness in Tel Aviv

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Saturday, on the last night of my just-ended visit to Israel, I attended two adjacent mass public events.  One was a political demonstration...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Political leadership in NYC: Mayor Eric Adams on antisemitism

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Elected officials with executive responsibilities have difficult jobs. The Mayor of NYC has to make sure that garbage is collected, that pot...
Sunday, September 3, 2023

Protest against political persecution of Prof Muhammad Yunus, and more general threats to democracy in Bangladesh

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  The Bangladesh Daily Star publishes an open letter, and the NY Times provides some general background. Here's the  open letter to Prim...
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...
Friday, July 21, 2023

The Cost of Inaction and the Urgent Need to Reform the U.S. Transplant System: participant statements

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 Yesterday's Senate Finance committee hearings on The Cost of Inaction and the Urgent Need to Reform the U.S. Transplant System are on v...
Thursday, July 20, 2023

Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care --testimony on organ transplants, going on now

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Watch right now or listen later.  UNOS is not popular in the Senate.   https://www.c-span.org/video/?529461-1/health-advocates-testify-impro...