Thursday, April 12, 2012

Trafficking in Spain's legal prostitution market

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A story of crime and human trafficking in Spain's legal market for prostitution, that is scary on many levels: In Spain, Women Enslaved ...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

A black market kidney sales dystopia in China

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This is the kind of black market that keeps my surgeon colleague Frank Delmonico travelling around the world in an effort to firm up laws (a...
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Organ transplants and prisoners in China, revisited

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Once again, China Moves to Stop Transplants of Organs After Executions "China said on Friday that within three to five years it plann...
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Monday, April 9, 2012

Kidney donation, illegal immigration, finances

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This story has it all, illness, compassion, bureaucracy, money, an illegal immigrant down on his luck and legal ones who have thrived... Fro...
Sunday, April 8, 2012

Which came first, the dyed Easter chick or the dyed Easter egg

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Here's a repugnant transaction I had never heard of, complete with laws passed and repealed... Nobody Minds Dyeing the Egg, but the Chi...
Saturday, April 7, 2012

Michael Sandel thinks more transactions should be repugnant

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The Atlantic publishes an essay adapted from his book  What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets:  What Isn’t for Sale? He is glad...
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Friday, April 6, 2012

Unraveling of law internships in Israel

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Haaretz reports: Law students to apply for internships only from third year: Israel Bar Association's council approved the rules govern...
Thursday, April 5, 2012

2-Tier Tuition at a community college?

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The NY Times reports on what some are finding a repugnant transaction, and others see as the only way to avoid further cuts: 2-Year College,...

Contraception as a repugnant transaction (the return of...)

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Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination has done a lot to put contraception back...
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Prostitution, in Canada and France

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Two stories on the same day last week caught my eye. Here they are, both from the Globe and Mail: Landmark ruling legalizes brothels in On...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

International Economic Science Association Conference 2012

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Here's the announcement  (note the April 21 submission deadline): The   Center for Experimental and Social Science   (CESS) at the   N...
Monday, April 2, 2012

Market design for radio spectrum: new NSF program

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Here's an   announcement that recently went out from the National Science Foundation: "Dear Colleagues, "I am writing ...
Sunday, April 1, 2012

FCC incentive auctions

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Here's a good way to begin to design an auction: FCC hires top economists " As the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) moves...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Sports agents and the NCAA

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Joe Nocera in the NY Times talks about yet another way that professional and college hockey interact differently than do other sports:  The ...
Friday, March 30, 2012

30 Rock "Kidney Now" song

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Live kidney donation, set to music on the small screen, from 30 Rock: Here's the song:  and here's a bit of the ...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

Competition among kidney exchanges

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I'll be spending today and tomorrow at a "consensus conference" to assess just how much consensus there may be among the diffe...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

New challenges in multi-hospital kidney exchange

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Ashlagi, Itai  and Alvin E. Roth, " New challenges in multi-hospital kidney exchange ," American Economic Review papers and procee...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Kidney exchange in Britain

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David Manlove , who wrote in 2010 about Britain's first 3-way kidney exchange , writes today about work with his former student Gregg O...

Compensation for donors, organ trafficking, and the Declaration of Istanbul

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The American Journal of Transplantation publishes an article suggesting that organ trafficking can only be effectively ended by ending the s...
Monday, March 26, 2012

Uriel G. Rothblum, 1947-2012

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Uri Rothblum in his office at the Technion in 2003 My old friend Uri Rothblum passed away today, after a heart attack. We met when we en...