Thursday, June 22, 2017

Repugnance to Science: Brecht's "Life of Galileo" at the Young Vic

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I had the great pleasure of seeing a timely production of Brecht's Life of Galileo at the Young Vic. Before his troubles with the Ch...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Travel while on dialysis

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One of the burdens of kidney failure is that, while waiting for the chance of a transplant, patients often have to spend several hours seve...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Needed: International responsibility sharing for refugees

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The Scalabrinians, a Catholic organization concerned with refugees, has issued a report: International Migration Policy Report: Responsi...
Monday, June 19, 2017

Listen to my Morishima Lecture: Marketplaces and Market Design (audio only)

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Below you can listen to a podcast of my lecture in honor of Michio Morishima at the LSE last Thursday. (Update: I've also added link...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

Mail order opiods, paid for by bitcoin, ordered over the dark net

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The NY Times has the story: Opioid Dealers Embrace the Dark Web to Send Deadly Drugs by Mail "In a growing number of arrests and ov...
Saturday, June 17, 2017

A long transplant chain in Nebraska

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An 18 person chain (9 donors and 9 transplants) is celebrated in Nebraska: After transplant chain, donors meet those whose lives they sav...
Friday, June 16, 2017

Breast milk sales and bans

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Cambodia is banning more than surrogacy (see Wednesday's post ): Ban on breast milk sales throws spotlight on growing international tr...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

Morishima Lecture at the LSE: Marketplaces and Market Design--live webcast, June 15

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I'll speak on Marketplaces and Market Design Marketplaces and Market Design Thursday 15 June 2017 6:30pm  to  8:00pm Host...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Surrogacy in Southeast Asia gets complicated

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This Week in Asia has the story: HOW ASIA’S SURROGATE MOTHERS BECAME A CROSS-BORDER BUSINESS Clampdowns on surrogacy in Cambodia, Thailan...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Yesterday was Loving Day: 50 years of legal inter-racial marriage throughout the United States

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Yesterday was Loving Day , the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision on June 12, 1967 in the case of Loving v. Virginia , that bans on...
Monday, June 12, 2017

Organ preservation could bring big changes to transplantation

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Transplantation would be a lot less hectic if organs could be preserved. Here's a 42-author paper (the biggest coauthorship I've be...
Sunday, June 11, 2017

Portable hemodialysis?

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When I was in Trento I was approached by a team from an Italian-Californian startup that is trying to develop a portable hemodialysis syste...
Saturday, June 10, 2017

FutureEd

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FutureEd is a new(ish) educational think tank at Georgetown, founded by veteran Ed writer  Thomas Toch . "FutureEd is an independe...
Friday, June 9, 2017

Snippets of Advice to Young Economists

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During the AEA meetings in January, the Lindau festival recorded some short video snippets. Here's an edited collection of words of adv...
Thursday, June 8, 2017

California's right to die law: early days

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The Mercury News brings us up to date on California's right to die law California’s right-to-die law: Patients struggling to find doct...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Alex Peysakhovich is thriving at Facebook

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Here's Alex Peysakhovich, on a list of  top  30 thinkers under 30 ALEXANDER PEYSAKHOVICH'S THEORY ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ...
Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Frank Delmonico and the recent organ transplant meeting at the Vatican

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When I was in Trento, I participated in a panel on markets for human organs , and had the chance to ask Dr. Ignazio Marino about the recent...
Monday, June 5, 2017

More from the Festival of Economics Trento

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I'm back home, after two exciting days in Trento (and two long days of travel). There are a bunch of videos, and some press coverage, f...
Sunday, June 4, 2017

Old enough to drive, old enough to register to donate in Illinois

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Here's the press release Illinois Senate Unanimously Passes Legislation to Strengthen Organ Donor Registry The "Drive for Life...
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Online markets for prostitutes, including children are difficult to abolish

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Illegal markets are hard to close down, and that goes double for advertisements for illegal markets, in which free speech issues and third-...