Sunday, November 12, 2017

Corruption as an equilibrium

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WHY I AM CORRUPT | In Defense of Nigerians by Ayo Sogunro "I am corrupt because the alternative is dangerous. In the final analysi...
Saturday, November 11, 2017

Alabama adopts a paid leave program for organ donations

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Here's the story: Alabama adopts a paid leave program for organ donations "Under a new state provision, a permanent employee wi...
Friday, November 10, 2017

Buying body parts is easy, as long as you don't use them for transplants

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Cashing in on the donated dead: The Body Trade A REUTERS SERIES Part 1: When Americans leave their bodies to science, they are also dona...
Thursday, November 9, 2017

Legal prostitution and crime in the Netherlands

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Here's a new paper on the relationship of legal prostitution and crime. Street Prostitution Zones and Crime  Paul Bisschop, Stephen ...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Kidney exchange authorized in Argentina

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A judicially-authorized kidney exchange already took place in Argentina (involving a well known journalist, Jorge Lanata), but now, Julio E...
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Tuesday, November 7, 2017

School choice in Indianapolis, and elsewhere

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The Indy Star has the story on the imminent rollout of centralized school choice in Indianapolis: Major changes await those wanting to enr...
Monday, November 6, 2017

The American market for machine guns

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Here's an extensive excerpt from a long article on thefirearmblog.com on the (complicated) legal status of machine gun sales in the U.S...
Sunday, November 5, 2017

The market for hunting exotic animals without traveling to exotic places

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The NY Times has a story about the Ox Ranch , which describes itself as offering  "18,000 acres of the best Texas Hill Country Hunting...
Saturday, November 4, 2017

Market design in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, edited by Kominers, Teytelboym and Crawford

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Market Design ARTICLES An invitation to market design   Scott Duke Kominers ;  Alexander Teytelboym ;  Vincent P Crawford...