Showing posts with label Hungary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hungary. Show all posts
Friday, August 8, 2025

John Harsanyi: the story behind the Hungarian memorial coin (by Miklos Pinter)

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 Rosemarie Nagel and Miklos Pinter have sent me the following story about how Miklos helped design the game-theoretic image on the Hungaria...
Saturday, May 24, 2025

A controversial artificial intelligence experiment in Hungary

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 Peter Biro alerts me to this artificial intelligence experiment  that caused a backlash when it was conducted in Hungary. Here's the s...
Saturday, September 14, 2024

Interview about repugnance (and this blog) in Hungary

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  Here's a link to an interview about repugnance in the Hungary Daily News. The  last question and answer was about this blog. “Repugnan...
Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Great Market Hall in Budapest

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 It's good to remember that before markets were digital, essentially all marketplaces were places . Here I am trying to take in Budapest...
Sunday, July 7, 2024

Mechanism and Institution Design in Budapest, in honor of Vince Crawford's 75th birthday: July 8-12 at Corvinus University

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  Here's the high level program , and here's the detailed program . I plan to speak on Wednesday about Ethical Issues in Market Desi...
Friday, February 9, 2024

Celebrate Vince Crawford in Budapest at the CONFERENCE ON MECHANISM AND INSTITUTION DESIGN in July. (Call for papers...)

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  Here's the announcement: CONFERENCE ON MECHANISM AND INSTITUTION DESIGN The 2024 Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design will t...
Thursday, October 21, 2021

Janos Kornai (1928-2021)

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 Peter Biro alerts me to the passing of Janos Kornai . Renowned Economist Kornai Dies Aged 94 and here Economist Janos Kornai dies He was a ...
Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Course allocation at Eötvös Loránd University, by Attila Rusznák, Péter Biró, and Rita Fleiner)

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At  Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary, there's a course allocation system that gives rise to intense course exchange after its officia...
Thursday, July 2, 2020

John Harsayni, on Hungarian coinage (and a memorable conversation)

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The title of this blogpost is ambiguous, but the picture should disambiguate it. (As far as I know, the late great game theorist, who initi...
Sunday, May 3, 2020

Repugnance watch: Hungary moves to roll back legal recognition of transsexuality

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The covid-19 pandemic has allowed a consolidation of authoritarian power in Hungary, as also elsewhere, which can take some odd forms. Th...
Sunday, October 27, 2019

Interview with Péter Biró on kidney exchange and related matters

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The interview touches on Peter's history, and on developments in kidney exchange. Az algoritmus, ami életeket ment - interjú Biró Pét...
Sunday, April 2, 2017

The Central European University is worth defending from government pressure

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The Central European University  in Budapest is in danger of being forced to shut down. World’s leading economists ask Hungary to withdra...
Sunday, December 4, 2016

Matching in Budapest, Dec 14-15

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101 years of matching in Hungary will be the subject of two matching conferences are coming up in Budapest. On Dec 14,  100 years of match...
Sunday, October 4, 2015

Janos Kornai on recent developments in Hungary and its political and economic institutions

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Janos Kornai, the eminent Hungarian economist, is not optimistic about recent developments there. Hungary's U-Turn Janos Kornai...