Showing posts with label Iran. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iran. Show all posts
Monday, June 30, 2025

Dog walking (and driving with dogs) in Iran

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As we wait to see if the Israel-Iran cease fire will hold, we can hope that the new normal will become better than the old normal, in both I...
Thursday, September 5, 2024

Social Choice & Fair Division: Theory & Applications, at the University of Tehran this weekend

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 Mehdi Feizi (مهدی فیضی) writes to alert me to the upcoming conference, at the University of Tehran, on Social Choice & Fair Division: T...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Black markets for alcohol in Iran

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 Prohibition (of alcohol) didn't work in the U.S. from 1920-1933, and it's not working in Iran today, despite "the Islamic Repu...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Attack on Sharif University in Iran: an open letter

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 I'm among the signers of yet another open letter protesting events in Iran, this one against violent attacks on peaceful protesters in...
Monday, June 27, 2022

A Forum on Kidneys for Sale in Iran, in Transplant International

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 Just published in Transplant International  (which is the journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation), is a paper describing...
Thursday, January 13, 2022

Black market supply chains, Persian gulf stories

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  Supply chains around the world are reacting to disruptions caused by Covid and other things. And those are mostly uncontroversial, unconte...
Monday, November 29, 2021

An experimental study whose participants are compensated donors in the legal Iranian market for kidneys, by Kelishomi and Sgroi

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 A recent working paper from Warwick reports an experiment and survey study whose participants are compensated kidney donors (and prospectiv...
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Laws and law enforcement for actions whose illegality is controversial (the case of 'honor killing')

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Repugnant transactions and actions are sometimes banned with the full force of the law: consider  e.g. narcotics trafficking in the U.S., w...
Sunday, December 15, 2019

Market design, in Farsi

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Here's an article in Farsi, from an Iranian blog: طراحی بازار؛ حیات جدید اقتصاددانان دنیا امروزه اقتصاددانان تنها برای تحلیل بازا...
Monday, August 26, 2019

The Iranian kidney market in Mashhad, by Mehdi Feizi and Tannaz Moeindarbari in Clinical Transplantation

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Here's a new article in Clinical Transplantation: Characteristics of kidney donors and recipients in Iranian kidney market: Evidence ...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Official and unoffical Iranian kidney marketplaces--online prices

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The Journal of Urology has published an in-press short paper about an informal website that seems to operate alongside the official Iranian...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

PBS asks: should the U.S. follow Iran in allowing a market for kidneys for transplant?

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PBS asks the question Iran pays kidney donors. Should the U.S. follow? You can read the transcript or watch the video at the link. HT:...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

An anthropologist (Dr. Elham Mireshghi) looks at the market for kidneys in Iran

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Elham Mireshghi completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology at UC Irvine in 2016. Her dissertation is Kidneys on Sale? An Ethnography of Policy,...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Kidney donor/sellers in Iran face social stigma--2 papers

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The first of these two recently published papers is a report compiling interviews taken some time ago: Coercion, dissatisfaction, and soc...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

More debate about legalizing kidney sales

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There's nothing new in this debate, but here is more on compensating kidney donors.  As far as I can see, the weakest argument against ...
Sunday, September 3, 2017

The Iranian kidney market--Associated Press

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The Associated Press has a nice story on the Iranian market in which donors can be compensated for kidneys. Here's the version in the D...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Organ transplantation in Iran

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Robert Gutman draws my attention to this article from the English language Iranian Financial Tribune:  Sunday, April 23, 2017  Strides in O...
Saturday, March 18, 2017

Mohammad Akbarpour on Iran's kidney market

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My colleague Mohammad Akbarpour at Stanford GSB is featured in their newsletter.   He thinks about kidney transplantation from a number...
Thursday, December 8, 2016

Opposition to kidney sales in Iran

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Afshin Nikzad points me to the following story in Farsi, and provides the translation below. He writes: http://donya-e-eqtesad.com/Site...
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Saturday, August 27, 2016

The Iranian market for kidneys

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The AP has published this descriptive story about the Iranian market for kidneys: IN IRAN, UNIQUE SYSTEM ALLOWS PAYMENTS FOR KIDNEY DONORS...
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