Showing posts with label trust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trust. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Transplants and trust

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Much of medicine's effectiveness depends on trust, and that is nowhere clearer than in organ transplantation, which depends on organ don...
Friday, January 22, 2021

Mike Luca on social media bans

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  Mike Luca writes, in Wired, about social media bans as part of their design. Social Media Bans Are Really, Actually, Shockingly Common--B...
Monday, March 4, 2019

Tuskegee and transplantation

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Here's a complex story from the Chicago Tribune, that conveys just some of the complicated ways that many African Americans relate to t...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

Reputation in online marketplaces

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Two recent NBER papers tell us about trust, quality, and reputation in online marketplaces. BUYING REPUTATION AS A SIGNAL OF QUALITY: EV...
Monday, July 25, 2016

Trust and crime: Reputation in the (illegal) market for sex

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Quartz has an article on how sex workers can vet new customers, in the age of the internet:  Sex workers have created the perfect method fo...
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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Instructions are part of a market's design

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Whenever my colleagues and I help design a new marketplace, we're very aware that a part of the market mechanism are the instructions th...
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

"Girl taxi" and "Ladies Nights"

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The WSJ reports 'Girl Taxi' Service Offers Haven to Beirut's Women . "...these days the city's transport staple is fac...
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Thursday, March 5, 2009

Trust and trustworthiness: promoting and maintaining it

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Trust is essential for all sorts of transactions, and how to set up institutions to promote trust and trustworthiness in the marketplace is ...
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