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."

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Showing posts with label sport. Show all posts

Sunday, September 14, 2025

The black market in stolen homing pigeons

Below are some excerpts from a long interesting story in the Washington Post, about how a boom in pigeon racing in China led to a rash of ...

Saturday, August 5, 2023

Prohibition, Moonshine, and the origins of stock car racing (NASCAR)

Prohibition (and before and after prohibition, high taxes) gave rise to black markets in alcohol. Some of the participants in those markets ...

Saturday, June 14, 2014

Futbola eta Ekonomia by Ignacio Palacios-Huerta in the NY Times

Would fútbol by any other name be as interesting? * It is to the economist Ignacio Palacios-Huerta, who has a column in the NY Times mot...

Saturday, July 28, 2012

International football (soccer) career paths--the case of Didier Drogba

Simon Kuper in the FT reports on the football career so far of Didier Drogba, which began when he was 5 years old: Didier Drogba is a case ...

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