Sunday, July 31, 2011

College admissions in England

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Inside Higher Ed follows the  Plan to Restructure British Higher Ed "The British government released its  long-awaited "white pa...
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Saturday, July 30, 2011

Update on efforts to ban circumcision in CA

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Here's a legal update on the matter, from the Volokhs...  Court Tentatively Decides That State Law Preempts Proposed San Francisco Ban o...
Friday, July 29, 2011

Hockey: the NHL draft is different

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Yesterday's post, with an update at the bottom... Four Harvard Freshmen Selected in NHL Draft " Months before they’ll put on a ...

Can new science universities flourish in Saudi Arabia? In Egypt? In China?

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I've written before about the difficulties of breaking into the top ranks of universities , and so it will be very interesting to watch ...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Brandeis and critics agree that sales of donated art are repugnant

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After a change in presidents, the controversy about whether Brandeis University could sell its art has ended, Inside Higher Ed reports:  Br...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

NSF Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences--attack and defense

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As budget talks go on in Washington, the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences division of the National Science Foundation has become a s...
Monday, July 25, 2011

More on deceased organ donation in Israel

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In an earlier post I wrote about the recent Israeli legislation giving priority for deceased donor organs to those who have themselves regi...
Sunday, July 24, 2011

764 anniversaries in NYC

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I thought of heading this post "7/24 to be an anniversary for 764." New York City will be conducting a lot of marriages today:  ...
Saturday, July 23, 2011

Behavioral Economics in Management Science

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Kathleen McGinn forwards the following announcement, a version of which also appears here : Given the tremendous growth and importance o...
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Friday, July 22, 2011

Real estate agents as middlemen

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A new NBER paper examines real estate agents in Boston: The Costs of Free Entry: An Empirical Study of Real Estate Agents in Greater Boston...
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Middlemen and repugnance

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Luke Coffman has shown how employing a middleman can reduce the apparent blameworthiness of an action ( Intermediation Reduces Punishment (...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Kaushik Basu on India

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Kaushik Basu , Currently on leave from Cornell as Chief Economic Adviser , Government of India, gives a wide ranging interview . On Indian...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Kosher and Halal slaughtering repugnant in the Netherlands

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Dutch slaughter ban sparks Jewish and Muslim outrage " Just one week after the acquittal of  fiery far-right politician Geert Wilders ...
Monday, July 18, 2011

Peter Cramton video on the Medicare Auction

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"If you are building a bridge, you need a bridge expert. If you're building an auction, you need an auction expert." From th...
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Congestion in airports--landing at Logan

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One of the things that makes airports congested is the safety margin needed between planes as they takeoff and land. So I was a little surp...
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Sunday, July 17, 2011

NRMP to require participating programs to include all positions in the match

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NRMP TO IMPLEMENT "ALL-IN" POLICY "At its May 16, 2011 meeting, the NRMP Board of Directors voted unanimously to require p...
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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Wife sales

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File under 'formerly not as repugnant as now..." Wife Sales , by Peter T. Leeson , Peter J. Boettke, Jayme S. Lemke,  June 7, 201...
Friday, July 15, 2011

The job market in gastrointestinal endoscopy

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After completing a 3 year subspecialty match in gastroenterology, doctors wishing to specialize further can do a fellowship in advanced endo...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

Misc. repugnant transactions

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What is it about mercenaries? Deane-Peter Baker explores the Office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights view on the repugnance of  m...