Saturday, November 17, 2012

Organ harvesting and Chinese-Israeli diplomacy

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How Israel and China got into a diplomatic row over Knesset members and organ harvesting: Chinese embassy demands clarifications from Jer...
Friday, November 16, 2012

Israel Radio: Douglas Goldstein interviews Bob Aumann about 2012 Economics Nobel

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Bob Aumann is interviewed on Israel Radio, and talks about the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in economics. " What is pairwise matching, ...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

Economic Science Association conference in Tucson, Nov 15-17

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The North American regional conference will be held again in Tucson this year,from Thursday evening November 15 (reception) through Saturda...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Matching in the EU: Market Failures and Solutions

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The Bellaterra Campus of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona is the center of matching and market design this week, with two conferences. ...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Dean Rachel Croson

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Economist Rachel Croson Named Dean of the UT Arlington College of Business "Much of Croson’s research has centered on experimental an...

Bicker at Princeton

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Vikram Rao writes about recent changes in the matching process of students to eating clubs at Princeton: Professor Roth, I'm a f...
Monday, November 12, 2012

David Warsh reflects on Howard Raiffa's memoir and career

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On the anniversary of the Cuban Missile crisis, David Warsh reads some books , ending up with Howard Raiffa's memoir, about which he has...
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Sunday, November 11, 2012

Repugnance is not immutable

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In a New Yorker article called Love on the March , Alex Ross writes "I am forty-four years old, and I have lived through a startling ...
Saturday, November 10, 2012

Junior high school photo

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One benefit of getting 1500 emails with the subject heading "Congratulations" is that I've reconnected with old friends. One s...
Friday, November 9, 2012

Kidney Grafts Function Longer in Europe Than in the United States

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There's a report that Kidney Grafts Function Longer in Europe Than in the United States "Kidney transplants performed in Europe a...
Thursday, November 8, 2012

Workshop on Information and Decision in Social Networks

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The Workshop on Information and Decision in Social Networks  will take place today and tomorrow at MIT. (I'm flying today and speaking t...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Some old repugnance fades: same sex marriage and marijuana

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Votes still being counted in some states...but here's the NY Times: In Maine and Maryland, Victories at the Ballot Box for Same-Sex Marr...
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Physician assisted suicide on the ballot today in MA

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On the ballot today in MA (where I'm no longer voting, since our move) is a proposition (Question 2) that would allow physician assisted...
Monday, November 5, 2012

Kidney exchange at Northwestern

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While most of my work has been with multi-hospital kidney exchange networks, kidney exchange is also thriving at single hospital centers lik...
Sunday, November 4, 2012

Coordination devices: daylight savings time, and the international dateline

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Daylight savings time is a coordination device that we think about twice a year. The international dateline is another... The Border That ...
Saturday, November 3, 2012

An old interview about market design

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I've been giving a lot of interviews lately, so it was interesting to receive an email reminding me of an interview I did over a year ag...
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Friday, November 2, 2012

I speak at YULA Boys High School Beit Midrash

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I haven't accepted many post-Nobel invitations yet, but if you're in LA after Shabbat tomorrow, I'll be there too, at Yeshiva U...

Market design news, in Hebrew

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Tali Heruti-Sover (טלי חרותי-סובר) interviews me (in English) and writes in Hebrew here . חתן פרס נובל לכלכלה, פרופ' אלווין רות'...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

Lanie Ross speaks on deceased donor kidney allocation in Toronto

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If you are in Toronto tomorrow, you can catch influential medical ethicist Lanie Ross speaking about deceased donor allocation. Speaker Se...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Have a wedding? Need one? Bridal Brokerage...

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What to do when the venue and caterers have been paid for with big upfront deposits, and at the last minute it doesn't seem like such a ...
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