Market Design

I post market design related news and items about repugnant markets. See my Stanford profile. I have a forthcoming book : Moral Economics The subtitle is "From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work."

Showing posts with label measurement. Show all posts

Showing posts with label measurement. Show all posts

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Celsius' temperature scale (and other delights at Uppsala University)

While in Sweden I had a delightful visit to Uppsala University . It was there, in the 1700's (as the University was already nearing ...

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Incentives for cheating and for cheating-detection

A chilling and surprisingly complicated story from Panos Ipeirotis at NYU Stern (who blogs under the title "A Computer Scientist in a ...

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Getting what you measure: college rankings version

As the rankings of universities conducted by the magazine US News and World Reports have become more influential, there are a growing number...

Friday, July 3, 2009

Medical tourism and medical data

An Op-Ed in the NY Times reports on the difficulty of evaluating how well foreign hospitals do compared to American hospitals: Overseas, Und...

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