Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Pope Francis on organ donation and organ trafficking

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The Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group (DICG) requested an audience with Pope Francis:  Pope Francis meets with DICG representatives  ...
Monday, September 22, 2014

Golden Goose Award festivities and video on the simultaneous ascending auction design by McAfee, Milgrom and Wilson

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The awards ceremony was on Thursday in Washington. Bob and Mary Wilson go to Washington (photo by Peter Cramton) Here's the 20...
Sunday, September 21, 2014

The Onion proposes a school choice lottery

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The Onion notices that school choice is a high stakes game:  New Charter School Lottery System Gives Each Applicant White Pill, Enrolls Who...
Saturday, September 20, 2014

Same sex marriage still widely regarded as repugnant in Egypt, and a little less so in China

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Two prohibited same sex marriages, one in Egypt and one in China (in the British embassy there) draw very different reactions. The BBC ha...
Friday, September 19, 2014

Diverse approaches to surrogacy in the U.S.

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The NY Times has an interesting survey about the divided state of the union regarding surrogacy, with different approaches among states in ...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

Kidney exchange at Google Zeitgeist 2014: 15 minute video

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On Tuesday I spoke about kidney exchange at Google's Zeitgeist conference. I was the second to last speaker, right before President Cli...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Surgical Grand Rounds at U of Cincinnati Hospital

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I'll be giving two lectures today at the U of Cincinnati. Steve Woodle is there, one of the pioneers of kidney exchange. Grand Rou...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

John Van Huyck, 1956-2014

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John and Patsy and their (then) two boys spent a memorable year visiting at Pittsburgh when Emilie and I were there. I teach his papers ju...
Monday, September 15, 2014

Profile of Ken Arrow

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My office neighbor Ken Arrow is profiled by Janet Stotsky in the September 2014 issue of the IMF's magazine Finance and Development. At...
Sunday, September 14, 2014

Living kidney donors to get expenses reimbursed in Ireland

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Here's the story from the Irish Times: Living kidney donors to get expenses reimbursed . Note the "fine balance" the director...
Saturday, September 13, 2014

Obesity is a growing medical problem...in unexpected ways

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Obesity contributes to many diseases, including kidney and liver diseases that eventually require transplants. But it impacts the medical s...
Friday, September 12, 2014

Speaking about school choice to high school teachers (video)

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I recently gave a talk at SIEPR, to high school teachers, about school choice. They had good questions, which start after minute 38 in the ...
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Thursday, September 11, 2014

Many groups are starting to advocate experiments on compensating organ donors

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There's a lot of discussion these days about clinical trials of incentives for organ donation as a way of increasing supply. Here...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Brand names and informed consumers--pharmacists seem to like generic drugs

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Here's an illuminating look at the economics of brands, as in brand-name products, when there are close substitutes available. "...
Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Of Markets and Money: video of 12 minute interview

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Here's a video of a 12 minute interview I gave to Deutsche Welle while in Lindau, which just appeared here . It starts with my educatio...
Monday, September 8, 2014

You can do a lot of good if you don't worry about who gets the credit

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Shane Greenstein's' piece on false claims of credit for inventing email got me thinking about the larger question of attributing an...
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Sunday, September 7, 2014

Shane Greenstein on a false history of email

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Sometimes people believe that they deserve more credit than they're getting, and Shane Greenstein writes about a man who believes he sh...
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Saturday, September 6, 2014

You know game theory is becoming mainstream when...

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...There's a company offering to do your game theory homework for you...(I'll leave out the URL to avoid steering traffic...) ...
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Friday, September 5, 2014

My talk in Baku, on Repugnant Markets, Prohibited Transactions (video)

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Back in May I was in Baku, where I was a guest of the State Customs Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and the International Network ...
Thursday, September 4, 2014

Could/should eating rabbits become repugnant?

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We see lots of old repugnancies fading away (such as bans on same sex marriage ), but new ones form from time to time too (like the ban on ...
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