Monday, December 12, 2016

Black market for babies in Malaysia

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Al Jazeera files this report:  BABIES FOR SALE:  Malaysia's underground baby trade "The babies offered for sale come from a vari...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

Festival of Economics in Trento, June 1-4, on health inequality

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The initial announcements for the 12th Festival of Economics in Trento in June 2017 have appeared: the theme will be health inequality. I ...
Saturday, December 10, 2016

Repugnant money in England

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I've written a lot about repugnance and money, but never quite like this. Here's the Telegraph story on some new banknotes: New £5...
Friday, December 9, 2016

Dutch hospital director becomes anonymous kidney donor

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Joris van de Klundert points me to the following story: Voorzitter AMC geeft het goede voorbeeld als anonieme donor-- Ziekenhuisbestuurde...
Thursday, December 8, 2016

Opposition to kidney sales in Iran

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Afshin Nikzad points me to the following story in Farsi, and provides the translation below. He writes: http://donya-e-eqtesad.com/Site...
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Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Family consent for deceased organ donation in Canada

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The National Post has the story: One in five willing organ donors in Ontario have their wishes vetoed by family — and doctors don’t argue ...
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Conference on Economic Design: York, United Kingdom, June 14-16, 2017

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2017 Conference on Economic Design: York, United Kingdom, June 14-16, 2017 The tenth bi-annual  Conference on Economic Design  will ...
Monday, December 5, 2016

The human side of kidney exchange: video from NAS (5 minutes)

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This short (5 min) video is the first in a series  From Research To Reward   by the National Academy of Sciences about the human side of th...
Sunday, December 4, 2016

Matching in Budapest, Dec 14-15

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101 years of matching in Hungary will be the subject of two matching conferences are coming up in Budapest. On Dec 14,  100 years of match...
Saturday, December 3, 2016

Program for the recent Montreal conference on matching

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Here's the program for the conference on matching held in Montreal earlier this month. Colloque CIREQ Montréal de théorie microécon...
Friday, December 2, 2016

New Zealand's new Compensation for Live Organ Donors Bill

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Here's the link to the new New Zealand legislation on removing disincentives from kidney donation, sent by  Frank McCormick. Compensa...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

Public lecture at Rice University, Dec 2

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I'll be giving the RISE Lecture at Rice (RISE = The Rice Initiative for the Study of Economics). Here are some other links with logi...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Removing financial dis-incentives from kidney donation in New Zealand

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Frank McCormick points out this encouraging story from New Zealand, about removing financial disincentives from donating a kidney: 'R...
Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Game theoretic questions and the Trump transition, on Bloomberg Surveillance

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Early yesterday morning I was interviewed on Bloomberg Surveillance, about what I thought were some game theoretic questions facing the Tru...
Monday, November 28, 2016

Fairness for Digital Infrastructure conference, January 19-20, 2017, at Penn

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Fairness for Digital Infrastructure, January 19-20, 2017, UPenn, Philadelphia PA "A large part of our digital infrastructure is desi...
Sunday, November 27, 2016

An interview with computer scientist Cynthia Dwork

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Quanta Magazine, a publication of the Simons foundation, has an interview with Cynthia Dwork on differential privacy and fairness among oth...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

Organ donation in Singapore: not rocking the boat

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The Singapore Medical Journal publishes an extremely cautious article on  Policy options for increasing the supply of transplantable kidney...
Friday, November 25, 2016

An interview in the Buenas Aires Herald (in English): "All market design is political"

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I went to Argentina hopeful that I could get some insight there into our new president-elect, since they have had a lot of experience with ...
Thursday, November 24, 2016

Marilda Sotomayor wins the 2016 TWAS prize for Social Science

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THE WORLD ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (TWAS), for the advancement of science in developing countries, has just announced its 2016 prizes: Win...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

My talk at UCEMA in Buenos Aires (video)

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On my visit to Argentina my first talk (of 5) was at UCEMA, on November 16. You can see some pictures  here . Here is a video of my talk,...