Thursday, February 28, 2013

Compensation for kidney donors: once again under discussion

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The American Journal of Transplantation published the following article, by a large group of authors called the Working Group on Incentives ...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

(Not so) New discussion of monetary incentives for organ donation

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Update: a comment correctly points out that I somehow linked to an old story below:( I'll follow with some more up to date material tom...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Unraveling in Israel: CPAs and law grads

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Ran Shorrer sends me an email about the hiring of CPA's in Israel, in an article (in Hebrew) that also touches on law firm hiring.  He ...
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Monday, February 25, 2013

Can prison inmates consent to register as deceased organ donors?

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The State of Utah recently made it easier for prisoners to become organ donors: the Salt Lake Tribune has the story. House passes Utah inma...
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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Economics in British Airways' magazine

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I recently flew to and from Europe on a United/Lufthansa set of flights. Had I flown British Airways (which I haven't done since this in...
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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Rudolf Diesel, Niels Bohr and me ("great minds don’t go out of print; they go online.”)

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So says Springer, which published my first book:  Springer Book Archives Makes Its Debut : "Chiarcos points to the value of keeping s...
Friday, February 22, 2013

Virtual greyhound racing: technology meets repugnance

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I've written before about how greyhound racing is a transaction that many find repugnant. The Economist reports that technology may be ...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

The Harvard Crimson on Michael Sandel on economists

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One of the clearest reviews of Michael Sandel's thoughts on economics and economists  appears in the Harvard Crimson (the student newspa...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Performativity as a critique of economics and market design

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Yesterday's prize to Paul Milgrom for his work in market design (among other things) brings to mind a curious critique (and criticism) ...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Paul Milgrom wins the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

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This morning Spain's BBVA Foundation announced that Paul Milgrom has one the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Man...
Monday, February 18, 2013

Using chimpanzees for medical research is becoming repugnant

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The attraction and the repugnance of doing medical research on chimps both arise from the same fact: chimps are sort of like people... The N...
Sunday, February 17, 2013

Prisoner's dilemma, exam grading, and social media

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Long long ago I wrote an undergraduate exam that included a prisoner's dilemma question framed as the question of whether to study or no...
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Saturday, February 16, 2013

News story on sorority matching, quoting two Roths

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Here's a news story from the Daily Pennsylvanian, that is notable for quoting two Roths, without any suggestion that they are related (R...
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Friday, February 15, 2013

School choice in New Orleans, evolving

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Here's an article from the Times-Picayune about school choice in New Orleans, which will be expanding to include more schools.   One of ...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

Wagaroo: A matching market for pet dogs from responsible sources

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Christine Exley, a graduate student in Economics at Stanford, writes me about a new matching market, Wagaroo , that aims to cut the search c...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Human consumption of horse meat...some religious origins of repugnance

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In the United States, the repugnance felt towards the human consumption of horse meat probably stems from our regard for horses as pets, and...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Horse meat (unlabelled) in Britain and elsewhere in Europe

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There has been a lot of press on the fact that horse meat has been discovered mis-labeled as beef in Britain, and now elsewhere in Europe. T...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Real estate ads in Britain: "no upward chain"

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Some time ago I blogged about how transactions in tight real estate markets might produce chains (or even cycles) of transactions, in which...
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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Art project on matching in Berkeley today

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File this under "I'm not sure what to make of this" SONYA RAPOPORT "ImPOSSIBLE CONVERSATIONS?" Data Gatherin...
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Saturday, February 9, 2013

Hoxby and Avery on a glitch in matching low income high achieving students to selective colleges

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Caroline Hoxby and Chris Avery report that there are low income students whose achievements predict that they would do well in selective col...