Saturday, March 22, 2025

Atul Gawande on the destruction of USAID

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 Here's an interview with Atul Gawande, about the destruction of USAID.  The latter part of the url says it succinctly: https://www.newy...
Friday, March 21, 2025

Market design comes to the "new new economic sociology" (and vice versa)

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 In the Journal of Cultural Economy, sociologists reflect on their involvement with engineers in a project to integrate wind-generated elect...
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Lise Vesterlund is celebrated at the Copenhagen Business School

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 Here's the announcemnt; the ceremony is tomorrow. They reveal hidden structures in the economy and job market: Lise Vesterlund and Mari...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Low back pain: meta-analysis

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 The NYT has the story: What Works for Low Back Pain? Not Much, a New Study Says Researchers looked at 56 treatments for acute and chronic p...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Drone warfare in Ukraine (beating plowshares into swords...)

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 The WSJ has the story All-Robot Assault Opens New Chapter in Front-Line Warfare .  Ukraine’s drone-only attack was the first of its kind an...
Monday, March 17, 2025

Making America contagious again: Measles

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  Nature has the story: Will RFK Jr’s vaccine agenda make America contagious again? Fears are rising that infectious diseases such as measle...
Sunday, March 16, 2025

A Canadian MAID doctor recalls her first time

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 Yesterday's post was about medical aid in dying (MAID) in Switzerland, and the decision of a courageous scientist.  Below are some exc...
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Danny Kahneman's final decision

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Danny Kahneman spent his life thinking about how humans make decisions.  His final decision was to travel to Switzerland to avail himself of...
Friday, March 14, 2025

Lawfare and market design: New legal standard for medical malpractice

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 In the U.S. at least, a not insignificant part of medical practice (sometimes called "defensive medicine") is shaped and enforced...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Colombia proposes coca leaf legalization

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 The Guardian has the story: Colombia urges UN to remove coca leaf from harmful substances list Foreign minister says legalisation of main i...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Nicotine underlip: Zyn, snu to manage (and start) nicotine addiction

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Move over vapes: more ways to access nicotine without starting a fire: (I understand these are quite popular among our MBA students...)   Th...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Technology and the health care labor force--perfusionists

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 The evolving health care labor force provides a window on technology and employment.  There are now a substantial number of clinical perfus...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Immigration policy and the U.S. health care labor force (David Cutler in JAMA Health)

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 Many American health care workers are immigrants, so a reduction in immigration is likely to have consequences for health care. Trump’s Mos...
Sunday, March 9, 2025

Trans Forming Liberty. Amy Sherald at SFMOMA

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 Sometimes politics make an artwork even more politically fraught than when it was painted.      
Saturday, March 8, 2025

Is market design insidious?

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  Is market design not just performative, but insidious?  Here's a paper arguing that might be the case. Nik-Khah, E. (2025). Platformin...
Friday, March 7, 2025

Toledo celebrates Mike Rees

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 Here's the announcement from the University of Toledo: University Recognizes Faculty Members with Distinguished Honor  "Rees joine...
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Presidential communication styles: Obama vs Trump (via Jimmy Kimmel)

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 Most of the commentary on recent presidential initiatives focuses, appropriately, on substance. But style is important too, and revealing. ...
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Demonstrating for science (in Washington and elsewhere)

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 Scientists are more accustomed to demonstrating science than demonstrating for science, but that may need to change. Nature has the story...
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Universities and democracies

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 Universities and democracies are neither entirely the same nor entirely different. Here's the New Yorker story on Harvard: Will Harvard...
Monday, March 3, 2025

Tesla Owners Beware of Vandalism (email)

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 There is some debate in the business literature about what effect taking a public position on controversial social and political issues has...