Friday, November 30, 2012

Johanna Mollerstrom on Quotas and Cooperation

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What are some of the complexities associated with the design of affirmative action programs? Johanna Mollerstrom  looks into the question ...
Thursday, November 29, 2012

The market for photographs (or, me in a tie...)

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At Getty Images, you can scroll through some photos of this morning's Nobel Symposium at the Swedish Embassy in Washington DC:  http://...
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Symposium at the Swedish Embassy in Washington (5 American Nobel Laureates in 2012)

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Embassy of Sweden Cordially Invites You To A Symposium with 2012 American Nobel Laureates Thursday, November 29 th 08:30 am – 10...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Nikhil Agarwal investigates the medical match (and school choice)

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The matching literature has been short on theoretically sophisticated investigators who are simultaneously tooled-up for the most serious ki...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Scott Kominers on designing matching markets for diversity

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Scott Kominers , who finished his Ph.D. in 2011 , is on the market this year after a very productive two year postdoc at Chicago. He has w...
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Monday, November 26, 2012

Dr. Joseph E. Murray, who won a Nobel for the first kidney transplant, RIP

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Nobel winner Dr. Joseph Murray, famous for first successful kidney transplant dies in Boston See my earlier posts about Dr. Murray and...

Stephanie Hurder on Occupation Choice, Spouse Choice, and Family Labor Supply

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What is the most important problem facing young people in modern economies? Maybe it is navigating the joint processes of choosing a career ...
Sunday, November 25, 2012

Four Harvard students on the economics job market this year (2012-13)

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Moving between universities isn't a simple thing: although I'm no longer at Harvard, I'll be helping four Harvard students go on...
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Saturday, November 24, 2012

Anti-economics (If Michael Sandel Ruled the World)

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If I ruled the world: Michael Sandel The first sentence of the first paragraph: " If I ruled the world, I would rewrite the economi...
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Friday, November 23, 2012

A philosopher looks at repugnant markets

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The Dutch philosopher/economist Ingrid Robeyns  writes about Roth and Satz on repugnant/noxious markets She writes that " economists ...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

Happy Thanksgiving (and kidney exchange)

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A very happy Thanksgiving to all who read this:) I got the following very informative greeting (sort of a year-end letter and report) from...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

surrogacy

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Here are three NPR stories on surrogacy, highlighting some of the legal issues around it. http://www.npr.org/2012/04/13/150498711/surr...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Breast milk exchange?

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Ben Greiner writes: This might be an interesting upcoming story on repugnance: Due to the general positive effects, but also the socia...
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Monday, November 19, 2012

Game theory and differential privacy

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Here's a lecture on game theory and differential privacy, by Aaron Roth , an up and coming computer scientist whose work I've follow...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

State laws against price gouging

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Michael Giberson provides this list : State Year Notes Alabama 1996 Code of Ala. § 8-31-1 thru § 8-31-6.  LINK Alabama law ; ...