Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Valentine's day

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What do Valentine's day and National organ donor day have in common?  Well...hearts.  And love. And the same day... February 14: Nati...
Monday, February 13, 2017

First kidney exchange in Vietnam

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The first kidney exchange in Vietnam was performed last month. It was a two-way exchange in Ho Chi Minh City: VietNamNet has the story. V...
Sunday, February 12, 2017

Living kidney donation in Israel: a competition between two towns

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Ran Shorrer points me to this story... תחרות בין ההתנחלויות: מי יתרום יותר איברים לזרים גמורים עשרות מתיישבים החליטו לתרום את אחת הכליו...
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Saturday, February 11, 2017

Gift cards for participating in a Red Cross blood drive

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Kim Krawiec posts about a Red Cross blood drive advertised on Facebook: Gift Cards For Blood! Here's the ad:   Help Fight a Winter...
Friday, February 10, 2017

Vatican conference on organ trafficking and transplant tourism

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A recent meeting at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences of the Vatican: Summit on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism  resulted in a s...
Thursday, February 9, 2017

Ethicists on compensation for blood stem cells (aka bone marrow aka hematopoietic cells) donors

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The site  http://donationethics.com/   hosts a letter signed by many ethicists opposing an amendment to the National Organ Transplant Act t...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Celebrating Adam Bingaman at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio

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Working in kidney exchange has given me the opportunity to meet some remarkable surgeons, and one of them, Adam Bingaman, is being celebrat...
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

U.S. academic conferences and the travel ban. What would be the effect of a boycott? Can conferences usefully be moved?

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Part of the international reaction to the recent U.S. travel ban on people from seven countries has been a call to boycott U.S. academic co...
Monday, February 6, 2017

Pictures from the Wilson CME MSRI prize ceremony

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We gathered in Chicago to celebrate Bob Wilson. Here's a story, with some nice quotes from Andy Skrzypacz: ROBERT WILSON APPLIED GAME ...
Sunday, February 5, 2017

IVF: Experience suggests there's room for some regulation

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The Guardian has the story: IVF mix-up: wrong sperm may have fertilised eggs of 26 women Dozens of women may have had eggs fertilised by s...
Saturday, February 4, 2017

Rotman School of Management is offering to help business scholars and students affected by the US restrictions

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A worthwhile Canadian initiative from the Rotman School of the University of Toronto: Rotman School of Management is offering to help bus...
Friday, February 3, 2017

Market for ideas vs travel bans: academic societies and universities react

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A large group of scientific societies have signed this Multisociety letter deploring the recent Executive Order regarding travel to the U.S...
Thursday, February 2, 2017

Turing's law: UK posthumously pardons thousands of gay men

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On Christmas Eve in 2013 Alan Turing received a posthumous pardon from the crime of being homosexual in Britain in the 1950's.  Tuesda...
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Global Entry: blanket discrimination replaces "extreme vetting"

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A number of Iranian scientists received messages yesterday from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. These are long-term American resident...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Boy scouts reverse their position and accept transgender boys

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That was fast. After the Cub Scouts recently expelled a transgender boy, the NY Times reports  Boy Scouts, Reversing Century-Old Stance, W...
Monday, January 30, 2017

Economists as artisans, doctors, entrepreneurs...dentists, engineers and plumbers

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Is metaphor a verb? If so, a number of writers have taken Esther Duflo's recent Ely Lecture, "The Economist as Plumber,*" as ...
Sunday, January 29, 2017

Yuji Ijiri (1935-2017)

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Yuji Ijiri passed away earlier this month. He was one of the pioneers of accounting as a form of information economics, with all that has m...

Complexity of matching under substitutable preferences

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The Complexity of Stable Matchings under Substitutable Preferences Yuan Deng and Debmalya Panigrahi and Bo Waggoner Abstract In vario...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

Academics against blanket immigration bans

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As you may have heard, President Trump has signed an executive order that, among other things, temporarily bans visa entry to the U.S. for ...

Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design, vol 1, number 1 2016

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The first issue of the Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design is now online here:  http://www.mechanism-design.org/arch/v001-1/jMID-vo...