Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Should prostitution remain illegal in the U.S?

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The NY Times is on the case: Should Prostitution Be a Crime? A growing movement of sex workers and activists is making the decriminaliz...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Buying old drugs and raising their price is a repugnant transaction on Capitol Hill

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Valeant Chief, at Senate Hearing, Concedes Mistakes on Steep Drug Prices "The chief executive of Valeant Pharmaceuticals Internatio...
Monday, May 9, 2016

Los Angeles starts to discuss common enrollment school choice

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The LA Times has the story: How realistic is L.A. Unified's common enrollment application plan? "According to a report that dis...
Sunday, May 8, 2016

Interview about Who Gets What and Why at the American Academy in Berlin (audio, 10 minutes)

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When I was in Berlin in March I gave an interview which I just noticed is on the web ...
Saturday, May 7, 2016

Matching with (sexual) contracts, by Arcidiacono, Beauchamp, and McElroy

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Quantitative Economics, Volume 7, Issue 1 (March 2016) Terms Of Endearment: An Equilibrium Model Of Sex And Matching Peter Arcidiaco...
Friday, May 6, 2016

The college admissions scramble is now open: many colleges still accepting applications

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There is still time to find a college, and here is a link to a listing of colleges still seeking students: College Openings Update 2016 ...
Thursday, May 5, 2016

Burning ivory to educate the world about the illegal poaching of elephants

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Kenya burns world's biggest ivory stockpile worth $105m in conservation effort "Kenya set light to 105 tonnes of elephant ivory...
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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

College admissions, on Bloomberg Surveillance (audio interview, 7 minutes)

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I spoke briefly about college admissions yesterday on Bloomberg Surveillance: Roth: College admissions look for signals of student intere...
Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Refugees: "no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land"--from "Home" by Warsan Shire

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I only belatedly came across the poem “Home” by Warsan Shire , from which the iconic line that is the title of this post comes... “Home” ...
Monday, May 2, 2016

The Effect of Rules on Market Performance: a guest post by James Case

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Jim Case, the author of Competition: The Birth of a New Science  , who also frequently reviews books for the SIAM Review, writes that I co...
Sunday, May 1, 2016

Interview about market design in the economics newspaper Wirtschafts Woche (in German)

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I was interviewed about market design by Hans Jakob Ginsburg for Wirtschafts Woche "Märkte gestalten heißt nicht Märkte abschaffen&qu...

Discussion of Who Gets What and Why in Japan: a book review and an article (in Japanese)

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A book review and an article about my lecture at Tokyo Institute of Technology: Matching of the economy: "Who Gets What" by ...
Saturday, April 30, 2016

April was National Donate Life Month

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I received a variety of emails this past month related to National Donate Life Month , and I liked this image (from the A lliance for Pair...
Friday, April 29, 2016

Eric Maskin and Amartya Sen channel Condorcet on American and Indian politics, in the NY Times

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How Majority Rule Might Have Stopped Donald Trump By  ERIC MASKIN  and  AMARTYA SEN APRIL 28, 2016 Continue reading the main story S...

Zurich celebrates Tuomas Sandholm: Symposium on Electronic Market Design

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A symposium and more in honor of Tuomas Sandholm: Location The symposium will take place at the Department of Education of the  Uni...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Stanford celebrates Paul Milgrom and the Incentive Auction "Dream Team"

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New on the SIEPR webpage, by Krysten Crawford:  To secure a mobile future, Stanford expert creates an auction like no other  (the url is mo...
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Hank Greely on future possibilities for human reproduction

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One of the 2012 Nobel Laureates in Medicine was Shinya Yamanaka  whose work allows stem cells to be generated from skin cells. My Stanford ...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Theory and application, and age...

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An op-ed yesterday by Manil Suri in the NY Times, celebrating the 90th birthday of the mathematician Ivo Babuska, was in part a meditation ...
Monday, April 25, 2016

The first successful heart-lung transplantation

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Bruce Reitz recalls first successful heart-lung transplant:  The surgeon who led the team that performed the first successful heart...
Sunday, April 24, 2016

Discriminatory pricing for discriminatory services

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I remember initially being surprised that security lines at airlines would be shorter for higher fare travelers, but Americans are getting ...