Sunday, February 28, 2010

The market for cooked food (and thoughts of D'Artagnan at Maastricht)

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The market for pleasure boats ranges from canoes to yachts, and air transport ranges from economy class to big private jets, but the market ...

Living Liver and Kidney Donation

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The American Journal of Transplantation has assembled a "virtual issue" of articles they have published on various aspects of live...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

Herb Scarf explains mathematical economics

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Herb Scarf (who certainly knows) explains what is mathematical economics to a Humanities audience. His powerpoint slides for that talk are ...
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Friday, February 26, 2010

The Future of Same Sex Marriage

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The University of San Francisco Law Review's Spring Symposium, held today, is on The Future of Same-Sex Marriage . I like the sound of t...

Stability may be hard to achieve in decentralized matching

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So says a paper by Muriel Niederle and Leeat Yariv : Decentralized Matching with Aligned Preferences Abstract. We study a simple model of a...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Compatible pairs in kidney exchange

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The question of whether compatible patient-donor pairs should be invited to take part in kidney exchange is gaining some exposure with rece...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Market design at Yahoo!

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Here's a project description from Yahoo! Research: Microeconomics and Market Design By Michael Schwarz and David Reiley What are the ef...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Choosing schools (in NYC and SF)

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I've written elswhere about the school choice process for public schools in San Francisco and for high schools in New York City . But, r...
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Determining death for deceased organ donation

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Darshak Sanghavi, writing a while ago in the NY Times Sunday Magazine, discusses When Does Death Start? "Organ transplantation must abi...
Monday, February 22, 2010

Kim Krawiec on selling virginity

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Kim Krawiec has a post commenting on recent news stories and linking to a new paper: Like A Virgin? We Sell That Here! "A few days ago,...
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Beer legally for sale in another Mississippi county

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Another repugnant transaction bites the dust: A Voting Result That Faulkner Could Drink To "NEW ALBANY, Miss. — There was a vote here l...
Sunday, February 21, 2010

A National kidney exchange takes another tentative step forward

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UNOS issued the following press release on Friday: Participants Named for National Pilot Project for Kidney Paired Donation "Four organ...
Saturday, February 20, 2010

Sipping lattes while bearing arms

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A NY Times editorial suggests that coffee drinking while carrying is repugnant. (Background: it's legal to carry unconcealed weapons in...

Books about markets for body parts (for and against)

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Below are a mix of books, some scholarly some popular, mostly harvested by clicking on the Amazon links "people who bought this book al...
Friday, February 19, 2010

College admissions in England

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In England, universities faced with unexpectedly many applicants are raising the grades required for admission, which is apparently regarded...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

SF School Board Meeting, Feb 17: new choice system

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At the latest public meeting of the San Francisco Board of Education (last night, Wednesday, Feb. 17), the commissioners and the public were...
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Why isn't the queue longer for deceased donor kidneys?

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There are approximately 80,000 people signed up on the waiting list for deceased donor kidneys in the U.S., and this list has been getting l...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Cat stew

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Italian Food TV Host Under Fire For "Succulent" Cat Stew Recommendation (VIDEO) "Leading Italian food expert, writer and TV h...

Matrimony and dating sites with attitude

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The NY Times reports on the market for online dating and marriage sites that have ideas about who should be matched with whom: Better Loving...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Girls and the Little League

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An obituary of Judge Sylvia Pressler reminds us of some recent history: NJ Judge Who Opened Little League to Girls Dies "While serving ...