Thursday, July 13, 2017

John J. Carty Award: NAS prize in Economics for 2018

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The National Academy of Sciences John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science is to be awarded for work in Economics. Get you nomi...

House Panel Lifts Ban on Slaughtering Horses for Meat (December update: false alarm...)

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Hot news off the AP wire on one of my favorite examples of a US-centric repugnant transaction. Here it is from the NY Times: House Panel ...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

The costs of heroism: Some hidden expenses that come with donating a kidney

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Here's a Chicago Tribune column on the shabby way we treat organ donors, who assume nontrivial expenses to save someone's life. (Up...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Film on Global Kidney Exchange

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Here's a video documentary by Ivan Carillo on the Global Kidney exchange in which the Mexican poet Marisol Robles received a kidney tr...
Monday, July 10, 2017

Economics and computer science of a radio spectrum reallocation in the PNAS

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A PNAS article on the recent incentive auction, by its design team. Economics and computer science of a radio spectrum reallocation Kevi...
Sunday, July 9, 2017

Bob Slonim of Australia

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Here's an announcement from down under, where Bob Slonim  will be heading the Australian Federal government's Behavioural Economi...
Saturday, July 8, 2017

Kidney exchange job opportunity in Australia

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If you're a transplant professional following this blog from Australia, maybe this could be of interest: Australian Kidney Exchange ...
Friday, July 7, 2017

NAS report on The Value of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences to National Priorities

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As Congress continues to debate funding for science, here's a new report from the National Academies of Science:  The Value of Social, ...
Thursday, July 6, 2017

Supporting science during the budget process: an op-ed in the St. Louis Post Dispatch

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Here's an op-ed that ran this week in the St. Louis Post Dispatch: Federally funded research helps connect transplant patients with d...
Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Eduardo Azevedo on "Market failure in kidney exchange" at Penn today

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If I were at Penn today I'd attend this seminar by Eduardo Azevedo: Wed, July 5, 12:00pm – 1:30pm Where G65 JMHH Cal...
Tuesday, July 4, 2017

California's End of Life Option Act: the first six months

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Independence of a sort. California's End of Life Option Act  (aka medically assisted suicide; death with dignity, right to die)  has n...
Monday, July 3, 2017

Cadavers and the teaching of anatomy

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Hektoen International, A journal of medical humanities has several articles motivated by Rembrandt's painting of The Anatomy Lesson of ...
Sunday, July 2, 2017

The (criminal) repugnance of even child-free child pornography

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Sex with children is so abhorrent that a lot of things that look like sex with children are also illegal.   Here's a story from the Gua...
Saturday, July 1, 2017

Postcard from the Nobel museum--treadmill desk and artistic license

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 I just received a postcard from a friend who had visited the Nobel Museum in Stockholm. It is an artist's rendering of me on a tread...
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Friday, June 30, 2017

Insurance for organ donors in Ireland: is it compensation?

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Frank McCormick points out this interesting story from Ireland: If you're donating an organ, you can now get insurance cover The new...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

EC17: the ACM conference on Economics and Computation

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EC is now a long-running computer science conference (underway right now at MIT). I think the initials initially stood for Electronic Comme...