Sunday, May 20, 2018

A quick look back at the politics of electricity markets

›
This, from the RTO Insider, which bills itself as "Your Eyes and Ears on the Organized Electric Markets." Former FERC Chairs Re...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

Afshin Nikzad defends (x2)

›
Defense 2, (Offense 0). Afshin Nikzad defended twice in eight days, to qualify for two Ph.D.s, one from Management Science and Engineerin...
Friday, May 18, 2018

Eric Budish on (expensive) blockchain technology

›
The Economic Limits of the Blockchain by Eric Budish May 3, 2018 Abstract: The amount of computational power devoted to blockchains su...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

Liver exchange in the U.S.?

›
 From    Liver Transplantation 24 677–686 2018   Liver paired exchange: Can the liver emulate the kidney? Ashish Mishra  Alexis Lo  Grac...
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

"Economics that works" in Bloomberg, celebrates Parag Pathak as a reply to some critics of economics

›
A Top Econ Prize for a Theory That Works This economist figured out a better way to assign students to public schools. By Noah Smith, Ma...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Dick Thaler reflects on nuts to nudges--The economist as story teller

›
Some Thaler stories, from the horse's mouth Behavioral economics from nuts to ‘nudges’ A bowl of cashews led to a research breakthro...
Monday, May 14, 2018

Kidney Exchange in India: current conditions and recommendations for the future

›
The Indian Society of Organ Transplantation has published guidelines for expanding kidney exchange in India: Kute VB, Agarwal SK, Sahay M...
1 comment:
Sunday, May 13, 2018

Too many traffic jams: an interview with Stanford's Mike Ostrovsky (and a paper by Ostrovsky and Schwarz)

›
Mike Ostrovsky at Stanford GSB is interviewed on technology and traffic: An End to Traffic Jams? It Might Not Be a Dream And here's...
Saturday, May 12, 2018

The Alliance for Paired Donation celebrates it's 10th anniversary

›
Celebrating 10 Years of Paired Kidney Donations  in Toledo, Ohio. "The Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation is celebrating 10 year...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Technology, diversity and money in modern pornography

›
The fashion section of the NY Times recently ran a story on how technology such as webcams has democratized the pornography industry, in pa...
Thursday, May 10, 2018

Swaying minds about marketplaces, technology summit

›
I'll be trying to sway minds in tech today at the Sway Minds Technology Summit 2018 .  I'll be giving a very brief talk on matchin...
Wednesday, May 9, 2018

How many transplants could a transplant surgeon do if ...?

›
The  Indy Star carried this story about Dr. William Goggins at Indiana University, on the occasion of his 2000th kidney transplant (which h...
Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Surgeons get up early: Grand Rounds at Stanford

›
Today, shortly after dawn, I'll be speaking at the Department of Surgery, on matching.  Come if you're up...
Monday, May 7, 2018

I am slandered (or at least misunderstood) by The Economist for writing about repugnant transactions

›
You would think that writers for a magazine/newspaper called The Economist would read some economics before writing about it. Yet here, ...
Sunday, May 6, 2018

Laboratory grown meat: coming ...soon?

›
For omnivores concerned about cruelty in the food supply, laboratory grown meat offers an attractive possibility.  It's being explored ...
Saturday, May 5, 2018

Illegal trade in wildlife--photographic art recording a black market

›
The WSJ has a story about a photographer who has created still-life photos from animal remains confiscated  by Canadian customs agents. ‘...
1 comment:
Friday, May 4, 2018

Death with dignity: David Goodall flies from Australia to Switzerland

›
The Australian has the story: Professor David Goodall, 104, prepares to die in Switzerland "Australia’s oldest working scientist an...
Thursday, May 3, 2018

Tariffs and trade wars still seem like a bad idea: open letter to the President

›
The National Taxpayers Union has organized the following letter, signed by more than 1100 economists, of whom I am one. It is mainly a copy...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Abelard and Heloise and sexual harassment in the Academy...

›
At the same time as some sexual repugnances are diminishing (e.g. same sex marriage), other kinds of sexual liaisons, such as those between...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

College admissions and (versus) antitrust law, in the Atlantic. Legal status of a medical style match?

›
The Atlantic has an article on college admissions, saying it could be made to work better if only (and only if) colleges were exempted from...