Monday, May 31, 2010

Money and medicine in Britain's National Health Service

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The London Times reports NHS bars woman after she saw private doctor "A WOMAN has been denied an operation on the NHS after paying for ...
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Sunday, May 30, 2010

Kidney exchange at VA hospitals

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It's exciting to see kidney exchange growing. The issues that the Veterans Affairs hospitals face reflect the progress in the last few y...
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Saturday, May 29, 2010

Veil travails

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French cabinet approves veil ban " The French cabinet has approved a draft law to ban the wearing of full-face veils in public spaces, ...
Friday, May 28, 2010

Design of financial clearinghouses: Over the counter derivatives markets

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The Bank for International Settlements' Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems has, in a followup to the recent financial crisis, i...

Promoting young faculty at Harvard

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The Chronicle reports At Harvard, Tenure Isn't Just for Old People Anymore (and the issue, they surmise, is two career households). ...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Spousal Hiring

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In The Intricacies of Spousal Hiring , David Bell, a former Johns Hopkins dean writes "My experience in the dean's office confirmed...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Paul Milgrom on spectrum auctions in India and Germany

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Paul Milgrom writes on Success in Spectrum Auctions in India and Germany , in which he played an active role consulting to bidders.

Organ sales in China

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MSNBC reports Organ trafficking trial exposes grisly trade: Chinese man accused of selling black market body parts "China in 2007 banne...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Kidney exchange at Northwestern

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Tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon I'll be giving the Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture at Northwestern, and I'll talk a lot about kid...
Monday, May 24, 2010

Predicting behavior in games: a competition

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Sometimes an experimental design is meant in part to solve a market design problem. That's the case with the call for entries reproduced...
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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Gifts of kidneys and gifts of gratitude

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The ethics column in today's NY Times Sunday Magazine begins with this query: " Last fall, a stranger donated a kidney to my husba...
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Saturday, May 22, 2010

Scalping world peace as NY ticket resale laws expire

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The NY Times reports on Scalping World Peace, Outside Radio City "The appearance of the Dalai Lama at Radio City Music Hall has inspire...

Usury in the middle ages

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From Walsh, Adrian “The Morality of the Market and the Medieval Schoolmen,” Politics, Philosophy & Economics 2004; 3; 241-259 “Explorin...
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Friday, May 21, 2010

Market orders, programmed trading and loss of thickness

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I haven't yet read a convincing account of the one-day stock market crash and rebound on May 6, but here's an early (May 9, NY Times...
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

College admissions fraud, at Harvard

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The Globe weighs in: Trust-based admissions process leaves elite colleges open to fraud "The former Harvard College senior accused of d...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

More on payments for egg donors

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Payment Offers to Egg Donors Prompt Scrutiny " a study in the most recent issue of The Hastings Center Report, a leading bioethics ...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Organ donor registry mishap in Britain

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The Telegraph reports: Organs removed without consent after IT blunder "The records of 800,000 people were affected by an error that me...
Monday, May 17, 2010

Deceased organ donation, misc. links

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Number of Americans willing to donate organs rises, but still not keeping pace with need: Survey reveals pervasive donation myths "The...
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Informal money transfer networks: "hawala"

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The informal money transfer system known as Hawala (or hundi) is in the news with the arrest of three Pakistani men in New England who are ...
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Sunday, May 16, 2010

Piracy and anti-piracy: recent developments

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Russian Destroyer Frees Hijacked Oil Tanker (May 6, 2010) "Cmdr. John Harbour, a spokesman for the European force, said Thursday that ...