Friday, December 5, 2025

Ludwig Amadeus Minelli (5 December 1932 – 29 November 2025), leader of Dignitas assisted suicide organization

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 The Washington Post has the story Ludwig Minelli, founder of leading assisted suicide group, ends his life at 92.  Dignitas, which Mr. Mine...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

Scientists and policy makers with feet of clay

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  A recent article in The Lancet talks about the checkered career of the late James Watson (1928-2025), who participated in great science (t...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

AEA Survey of hiring plans of U.S. Economics Departments (and an unrelated unprecedented AEA announcement about Larry Summers)

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 Here's the latest survey of the job market for new PhD economists: To: Members of the American Economic Association From: AEA Committee...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Interview with Joel Mokyr: "I'm Not Sure Democracy Will Survive"

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 Joel Mokyr, the Dutch-Israeli-American 2025 Nobel Laureate in Economics for his work on the history of technology, is interviewed in Haaret...
Monday, December 1, 2025

Lucky By Design: book talk by Judd Kessler tomorrow

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  Mark your calendar for Tuesday, December 2, from  3:30–5 PM : Wharton Professor Judd Kessler will be visiting Stanford to deliver a talk...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Women in Thoracic Surgery,

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 The NYT reports on the second annual meeting of Women in Thoracic Surgery, a group for the less than 10 percent of heart and lung surgeons ...
Saturday, November 29, 2025

Gift to deceased donor family (generous ex-post, but illegal ex-ante)

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 What is generous ex-post but illegal ex-ante? Cleveland.com has the story:  Bernie Kosar gives large check to donor’s family days after lif...