Showing posts with label RIP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RIP. Show all posts
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...
Monday, November 3, 2025

David Gale (1921-2008) remembered, with a (belated) 100th birthday volume

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 David Gale (1921-2008) was honored recently with the publication of a volume commissioned at the time of his 100th birthday.  The editors r...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

John Gurdon (1933-2025)

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One hope for a future free of the need for human organ transplants is that it might become possible to re-initiate the process by which embr...
Saturday, October 4, 2025

Jane Goodall (1934-2025)

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Iconoclastic scientists not only do novel science, but they do science in novel ways. Jane Goodall also communicated to a broad audience, an...
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Michel Callon (1945-2025)

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  Hans Kjellberg  informs me that the eminent sociologist of markets, Michel Callon has died. Kjellberg writes about his long collaboration...
Thursday, July 3, 2025

Workshop in Memory of YingHua He, July 7-8

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 The Paris School of Economics, the Center for Economic and Statistical Research, and the Toulouse School of Economics are organizing a Work...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and International Members (4 economists: Steve Berry, Parag Pathak, Ed Leamer, and Sergiu Hart)

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 Congratulations to all the new members, and to the four newly elected economists. Of note: One of the economists is unusually young for thi...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Pat Bajari (1969-2025)

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 Pat Bajari has died at 55.  As Amazon's chief economist from 2010-2023, he oversaw a revolution in the labor market for economists, ma...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Danny Kahneman's last interview, and its backstory

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 Sometimes the backstory is more revealing than the story. In yesterday's NYT, the philosophers Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Sing...
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, February 28, 2025

Kevin Sontheimer (1938-2025)

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 My old friend and colleague Kevin Sontheimer has died.  He was a great leader of Pitt’s economics department when I was there, not just w...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Donald Shoup (1938-2025) led the war on (too much) free parking

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 Here's his WSJ obit: Donald Shoup, a Parking Guru Who Reshaped the Urban Landscape, Dies at 86 An economist at UCLA, Shoup said free pa...
Monday, February 3, 2025

Civil service in the United States, RIP (1883-2025)

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Civil service in the U.S. may not be dead yet, but it's suffering from potentially lethal attacks. The Pendleton Act of 1883 establishe...
Monday, January 27, 2025

Derek Humphry, Pivotal Figure in Right-to-Die Movement, (1930-2025)

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 Here's the NYT obit: Derek Humphry, Pivotal Figure in Right-to-Die Movement, Dies at 94 His own experience assisting his terminally ill...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

Diane Coleman, Fierce Foe of the Right-to-Die Movement, (1953-2024)

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 A courageous, long-lived disability-rights activist who made an eloquent case against medical aid in dying has died. Diane Coleman, Fierce ...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The year in passings

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  More reminders of mortality. Friday, March 8, 2024 Dr. Guy Alexandre (1934-2024), gave birth to brain death in deceased organ transplantat...
Saturday, December 21, 2024

KENNETH ARROW’S LAST THEOREM by Paul Milgrom

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  Here's a fitting tribute to Ken Arrow, who died in 2017, in the special issue of the Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design in H...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

A medically aided death in New Jersey: Pat Koch Thaler

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 Following a full life, a peaceful end. Pat Koch Thaler, Sister to a Famed Mayor, Chose to Die on a Saturday Ms. Thaler, a former dean at N....
Sunday, August 4, 2024

Remembering Jim Simons

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  Here's the memorial page from the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Remembering Jim Simons HT: Vijay Vazirani ########### E...