Saturday, October 31, 2009

Kidney exchange at the ASSET conference in Turkey

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The annual meeting of the Association of Southern European Economic Theorists is meeting in Istanbul this weekend. Among other notable event...

Market design in science fiction

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Stephen Weinberg, a well read economist at University of Albany (which I still think of as SUNY Albany), sends me the following email: "...
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Friday, October 30, 2009

The "Netflix for academic journals"

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For those without comprehensive electronic access to journals through big university libraries, the Chronicle of Higher Ed reports The Netfl...
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Forced Labor

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A new book recently arrived in the mail: Forced Labor, Coercion and Exploitation in the Private Economy, edited by Beate Andrees and Patrick...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

Hours per week worked by (young) surgeons

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In Britain as in the United States, there is considerable debate about the hours worked by physicians and surgeons, and what these mean for ...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

College admissions in Illinois, conclusion?

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U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Chancellor Resigns in Wake of Admissions Scandal Richard Herman, chancellor of the University of Illinois...
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Roger Myerson and Paul Romer on designing nations and cities

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Two emininent economists have been thinking about design on the largest of scales. Roger Myerson thinks about nation building in general, an...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Does a decrease in the number of traffic fatalities increase live kidney donation?

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Over at Economic Logic , the Economic Logician reviews an article, The Effect of Traffic Safety Laws and Obesity Rates on Living Organ Donat...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Markets for body parts, continued

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While it's illegal to buy or sell organs for treatment, there's a legal market for "tissues" such as bone. But it's st...
Sunday, October 25, 2009

Right to die in England

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There has been some interim resolution of the continued debate in England about whether those who assist a terminally ill relative who wishe...

Right to die in Montana?

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May a physician help a terminally ill patient commit suicide ? Or is that a terminally repugnant transaction, which even a willing patient a...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Right to wed in Vermont

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Same-Sex Marriages Begin in Vermont "Vermont is one of five states that now allow same-sex couples to marry. Massachusetts, Connecticut...
Friday, October 23, 2009

Egg "donation"

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Do a google search for egg donor and and open a window on a thriving marketplace for human eggs, with well established companies such as Eg...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Choosing sex of children: repugnant in Britain but not in U.S.

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The Times reports: US clinic offers British couples the chance to choose the sex of their child "A new clinic in Manhattan is appealing...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Living donor liver transplants

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One of the reasons that kidney exchange is proving successful is that the dangers to donors seem to be quite low. In principle, liver exchan...
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Monday, October 19, 2009

Kidney Exchange and Nurse Coordinators

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Lots of people play critical roles in making kidney exchange a reality, and a recent article emphasizes the enormous role played by nurse co...
Sunday, October 18, 2009

The kidney supply chain

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The Minneapolis Star Tribune has given its health reporter Josephine Marcotty unusual scope to write about kidney transplantation in a multi...
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Declaration of Istanbul update

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I received an email regarding the 2008 Declaration of Istanbul , intended to slow/halt/reverse transplant tourism and black markets for orga...

Peter Singer on compensating kidney donors

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Kidneys for Sale? by Peter Singer The distinguished Princeton philosopher of bioethics takes a nuanced view of the matter of compensation fo...
Saturday, October 17, 2009

31 States have laws against price gouging

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So reports Michael Giberson at KP , based on a Master's thesis by Cale Wren Davis, supervised by Randy Rucker at Montana State. The thes...
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