Saturday, July 31, 2010

The market for professionally taken digital photographs

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I was recently the subject of a magazine story, and, before it was published, the photographer Shawn Henry came to campus to "take my p...

The market for boasting

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How did people boast signal before they had blogs? Not long ago I was the subject of a flattering profile in Forbes (which I wrote about...
Friday, July 30, 2010

Kidney transplantation advice from the Netherlands

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Two recent reports from the Netherlands give advice drawn from their active transplant program. The (American) National Guideline Clearingh...
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Kidney exchange in Haaretz

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Here's an article (in Hebrew) on kidney exchange, featuring the work of Itai Ashlagi . (The article is also here .) Update: it wasn...
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Economics and computer science

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The links between economics and computer science are growing steadily closer, judging from this report conveyed by Noam Nisan about the Sha...

Paul Klemperer's "product mix auction"

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Paul Klemperer writes from Oxford: "the Bank of England has now been running my "product mix auction" for the last two mon...
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Peer to peer overnight accommodations

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The NY Times reviews sites of "social network bed and breakfasts" on which you can reserve rooms for overnight stays in cities aro...
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Unraveling of law firm interviews of 2nd year students

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Catherine Rampell has an informative article about The Other Law School Arms Race .  The date at which large law firms interview 2nd year la...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Squirrel game theory

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Natalie Angier reports on squirrel game theorists in the NY Times: Nut? What Nut? The Squirrel Outwits to Survive "But the squirrels ...
Monday, July 26, 2010

Paid drug trials

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The Chronicle of Higher Ed has a (gated) story about professional volunteers for drug trials: Inside the Risky World of Drug-Trial 'Guin...
Sunday, July 25, 2010

Internet dating moves (back) into the real world

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Computers can provide a multitude of services, and a new class of dating services uses them not to help people meet others, but to preserve ...
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Dan Ariely on online dating

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A transcript and a video interview here .
Saturday, July 24, 2010

Advice for Wake County schools

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It sounds like the troubled Wake County school system is about to get some advice on school choice.  But, to the extent that you can judge f...
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Abandoned horses not headed for foreign tables

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Speaking of the pony express, Activists Keep Nev. Horses From Going to Slaughter "With the financial backing of the wife of oil tycoon...

Express mail 1.0

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The Pony Rides Again (and again) " The heroic, nearly 2,000-mile delivery of mail across the country hemorrhaged money, from the first ...
Friday, July 23, 2010

Matching Marine officers to MOS

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A reader writes: "Dear Al, I was a grad student a few years ago in your econ 2010a segment. I came across a market design problem r...
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Misc. repugnant transactions

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A transaction is repugnant if some people don't want other people to do it. Here are some recent developments: International Space St...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

School choice gets contentious in Wake County, NC

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19 arrested as protesters claim school plan would resegregate system "Police in Raleigh, North Carolina, arrested 19 people at a rancor...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Me and market design, in Forbes

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Susan Adams in the August Forbes magazine (but online now) has a nice article about me and market design called (maybe for search engine rea...
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F.C.C. Indecency Policy Rejected on Appeal

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The NY Times reports the story : A federal appeals court struck down a Federal Communications Commission policy on indecency Tuesday, saying...