Saturday, February 22, 2014

Some industrial farming practices become cause for popular concern

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Kristof in his NY Times column: Is that sausage worth this? "While forcing hogs to be solitary and immobile in gestation crates for ...
Friday, February 21, 2014

Should museums sell art only to buy more art?

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Another university has contemplated--and then gone ahead with--selling art to raise money. Inside Higher Ed has the story: Art vs. ...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Commercial surrogacy: legal in California, illegal in NY

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I woke up in England this morning preparing to give the second of two Marshall Lectures, in which I'll talk about kidney exchange, and ...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Unraveling of college athletic recruiting

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At Stanford, when I meet student athletes I sometimes ask them when they first met a Stanford coach, and the earliest answer I've gotte...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Decentralization conference at Stanford June 10-11: call for papers

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Here's the call for papers: Call for Papers 2014 Decentralization Conference The 2014 Decentralization Conference will be hosted...

The Marshall Lectures at Cambridge, Feb 19-20

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THE MARSHALL LECTURES for 2013-2014 Professor Alvin Roth (Stanford and Harvard University) will deliver two lectures on "M...
Monday, February 17, 2014

The Financial Times excerpts "In 100 Years"

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I've blogged before about the book of essays edited by Ignacio Palcios-Huerta, " In 100 Years ..."  Now the Financial Times ...
Sunday, February 16, 2014

University of Cologne is advertising for market designers

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The Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne seeks to appoint one full Professor (W3), and one ass...
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Saturday, February 15, 2014

Ben Edelman, Internet Sheriff

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Bloomberg has a long story on Ben Edelman, as he might look to an internet badguy.. Harvard Professor Attacking Google Thrives as Web She...
Friday, February 14, 2014

Is blogging repugnant?

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Maybe blogging should be repugnant (especially when you're jetlagged in Chicago...) Inside Higher Ed has the (unlikely) pair of stori...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

Approaches to alleviating the shortage of transplant organs: AAAS annual meeting

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Weather permitting, I'll be on my way to Chicago today for a session at the AAAS meeting, on the shortage of organs for transplants. ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Payday loans versus bank overdraft charges

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I've blogged before about very-high-interest-rate  payday loans  to "unbanked" customers, and the repugnance with which they ...
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Do high earners marry each other?

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Here's a paper that finds that they do: Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality Jeremy Greenwood ,  Nezih Guner ...
Monday, February 10, 2014

Kidney exchange in San Antonio

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Here's a news release from San Antonio , where Adam Bingaman is doing great things in kidney exchange: SAN ANTONIO, Texas ,  Feb. 10,...

Interview in Amsterdam on how to be a professor...video

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I was recently in Amsterdam, where I was interviewed at the UvA's "Room for discussion." Essentially I was asked how to be a...
Sunday, February 9, 2014

Assisted suicide becoming less repugnant?

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The NY Times has the story (and it involves a name change):  ‘Aid in Dying’ Movement Takes Hold in Some States "Helping the termina...
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Saturday, February 8, 2014

Competition between colleges

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Wei-Cheng Chen and Yi-Cheng Kao have a paper on college admissions that focuses on the practice of universities in a number of Asian countr...
Friday, February 7, 2014

Same sex marriage comes to Scotland

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The BBC  has the story: Scotland's same-sex marriage bill is passed "MSPs voted by 105 to 18 in favour of the Marriage and Civil...
Thursday, February 6, 2014

WSJ: "I gave away a kidney, would you sell one?"

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Dimitri Linde, a non-directed donor who started a kidney exchange chain writes in the WSJ yesterday: I Gave Away a Kidney. Would You Sell...
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Perfect Strangers: kidney donation movie

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I went to see Perfect Strangers last night at Stanford , by Stanford's documentary filmmaker Jan Krawitz. It was followed by a panel ...