Showing posts with label safety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label safety. Show all posts
Thursday, December 29, 2022

Towards greater gun safety in San Jose

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 The mayor of San Jose, CA, has some thoughts on making guns and gun ownership less dangerous, in a  NY Times opinion column: 400 Million Gu...
Saturday, December 3, 2022

Roundabouts

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  A straight line isn't always the safest path between two points. The Washington Post has the story: Roundabouts are (slowly!) eating t...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Motorcycles as donorcycles

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 Here's an article from JAMA Internal Medicine , noting that motorcycle rallies produce an increase in organ transplants. Organ Donation...
Saturday, December 11, 2021

Disrupting black markets: call for papers

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  Laws banning markets often create black markets. And the same technologies that facilitate legal markets may do so for illegal markets tha...
Friday, January 22, 2021

Mike Luca on social media bans

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  Mike Luca writes, in Wired, about social media bans as part of their design. Social Media Bans Are Really, Actually, Shockingly Common--B...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Residential real estate sales, social distancing, and traditional marketplace institutions

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In some places, residential real estate is an essential service (open houses allowed) and in others not.  Virtual, internet showings are be...
Monday, April 13, 2020

Teaching online: Singapore, NYC react to Zoombombing of online classes

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Some of us are old enough to remember when email didn't come with security concerns.  Things are moving faster these days, so it's ...
Sunday, December 30, 2018

Rare whiskey: destructive testing

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The Guardian breaks the news: Rare whisky market flooded with fakes, says dealer Lab tests found 21 out of 55 bottles of allegedly vintag...
Monday, April 16, 2018

Safe exchange zones

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Marketplaces aren't just tools to bring potential transactors together, they can also seek to make transactions (physically) safe.  Cri...
Sunday, February 18, 2018

Harm reduction (for opioids) in Canada

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Here's a story from the Washington Post: At the heart of Canada’s fentanyl crisis, extreme efforts that U.S. cities may follow "...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Uneven playing fields in school choice: the consequences of manipulability

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 Here's a study of a school choice system using the manipulable (not strategy proof) immediate acceptance ("Boston") algorith...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Uber and "safety by design"

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I've written a lot about how marketplaces have to help markets become thick, deal with the congestion that can accompany thick markets,...
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