Showing posts with label supply chains. Show all posts
Showing posts with label supply chains. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 9, 2024

IV fluid shortages in the U.S.--perhaps we should allow international imports?

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There's a hurricane-induced shortage of intravenous (IV) fluid.  Maybe we should import some? (But...international borders...) An obstac...
Tuesday, April 5, 2022

More on the looming shortage of new antibiotics

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 From Medpage Today: Superbugs Are Getting Stronger— Our defenses are getting weaker   by David Thomas, MS, and Emily Wheeler  " There ...
Monday, March 21, 2022

Economics in a war zone: Tymofiy Mylovanov interviewed by Scott Kominers

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  What's the first thing an economist has to think about when his country is invaded?  Supply chains. Scott Kominers interviews Tymofiy ...
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...
Tuesday, December 7, 2021

The demise of bourbon-scented hand sanitizer

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The Covid pandemic isn't over, but the emergency shortage of hand sanitizer is. Some Companies Will Stop Making Alcohol-Based Hand Sanit...
Saturday, July 24, 2021

Marketplace for supplies to produce vaccines: COVAX

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  Scott Kominers sends me the following link, of a marketplace intended to notify vaccine makers of supplies that may be available: The COVA...
Monday, July 12, 2021

Congestion in transit in supply chains: pipeline inventory

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 The recovery from the pandemic is revealing as many supply issues as the pandemic itself did. Here's an article in Forbes about congest...
Sunday, May 30, 2021

Vaccinating the whole world quickly turns out to be hard

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  As Covid vaccines became available, rich countries that had made early, advanced purchases at high prices had contracts that delivered ava...
Thursday, May 6, 2021

Vaccine shortages are more about congested supply chains than about patent protection: Alex Tabarrok at MR

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  Alex Tabarrok has a nice post at Marginal Revolution about the actual problems in worldwide vaccine supply, involving congested supply cha...
Thursday, March 4, 2021

Vaccine supply and delivery in Germany: I'm interviewed in Zeit

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 Here's an interview in the German newspaper Zeit, in which I was asked in early February about the vaccine rollout here and there. (Goo...
Saturday, February 27, 2021

Vaccine supply, and delivery, a call to increace production capacity, in Science

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 The latest issue of Science has a call  by a very distinguished roster of economists, to invest in additional vaccine capacity, urgently, t...
Monday, January 25, 2021

Congestion in vaccine delivery, and shortage of overall supply: latest news, and a call for increased production

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Covid vaccines in many parts of the U.S. are being distributed only slowly, while other places are experiencing shortages.  The NY Times bri...
Saturday, January 2, 2021

Vaccine supply chain woes

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Supply chains are boring, until things are in short supply. And there are many steps in a supply chain that can cause supplies to be short. ...
Sunday, October 4, 2020

Grocery supply chains: TNR reviews "The Secret Life of Groceries"

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 The New Republic reviews  The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket , by Benjamin Lorr,  (It tells you mor...
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

The fall and rise of food supplies in Covid-19 India, by Matt Lowe and Ben Roth

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Pandemic lock downs gave food supply a shock in Indian markets, but they have recovered. COVID Lockdown: How India's Food Supply Chai...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

When supply chains break down, brokers make markets

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During the Arab oil embargo of the U.S. in 1973, I remember hearing an oil broker discuss his day. He would cold call companies that used o...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

Corona lockdown, and the food supply chain in India, by Matt Lowe and Ben Roth

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Matt Lowe and Ben Roth look at the effect of India's corona virus lockdown on the food arriving at the big wholesale produce market in ...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

Modern slavery, in supply chains and around the world

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The Global Slavery Index recently issued its report for 2018. They say : "In the context of this report, modern slavery covers a set...
Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Kidney exchange in People Magazine

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In the Nov 30 issue, with Johnny Depp on the cover. "The chain's home base is the University of Toledo Medical Center, where transp...
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Saturday, August 22, 2009

The market for bulk commodity shipments

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The transport of bulk commodities by sea is a business that depends on matching loads to ships. When times are good, ships may be fully book...