Monday, December 10, 2018

Self regulation of black markets on the dark web?

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Here's an interesting story from the Guardian, about some dark-web black markets in the U.K. banning fentanyl, as too deadly and (hence...
Sunday, December 9, 2018

Gabriel Weintraub's class on online marketplaces at Stanford GSB (winter quarter)

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Gabriel Weintraub writes: I am sharing this information in case some of you are interested on this new half-quarter PhD course I will b...
Saturday, December 8, 2018

School choice, an overview by the Center for American Progress

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The Center for American Progress, a DC think tank, reviews school choice: Expanding Access to High-Quality Schools Implementing School Ch...
Friday, December 7, 2018

Congratulations to Eva Tardos, winner of the 2019 IEEE John von Neumann Medal

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Congratulations to Eva Tardos .  The Communications of the ACM has the news: Tardos to Receive von Neumann Medal "Tardos was cited ...
Thursday, December 6, 2018

Repugnance watch: pay toilets

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Citylab reports: Pay Toilets Are Illegal in Much of the U.S. They Shouldn't Be. In the 1970s, many American cities and states banned ...
Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Would government compensation of kidney donors help or hurt the poor?

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Here's an article in PLOS ONE that asks a question whose answer is often simply assumed by those who oppose compensation for kidney don...
Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Feeding America: Podcast on HBS case study of Canice Prendergast and Feeding America

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Here's an audio interview of Canice Prendergast and Scott Kominers (who wrote the HBS case study) about the work that Prendergast and ...
Monday, December 3, 2018

Arrow Lecture at Columbia (video): Market design (with discussion by Parag Pathak and Joe Stiglitz)

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Here's a video of the lecture I gave on Columbia on November 8, in honor and in memory of Ken Arrow. My title was "Market Design i...
Sunday, December 2, 2018

Match-Up 2019 conference in Switzerland, May 2019. Call for papers

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Bettina Klaus points me towards this call for papers, for the latest in a series of conferences on matching. (I had the good fortune to att...
Saturday, December 1, 2018

Why own your own (fashionable) clothes?

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There's a rental market for fashionable women's clothes, Rent the Runway The NY Times ran a feature story on it: The Transformat...
Friday, November 30, 2018

Vic Fuchs on desirable health insurance overhaul

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In JAMA (gated:(.  Vic isn't optimistic about the political prospects of large scale reform of health insurance, but he has some though...
Thursday, November 29, 2018

Economic engineers as classical liberals

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I received a book in the mail the other day called Where Economics Went Wrong Chicago's Abandonment of Classical Liberalism by David...
Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Avinatan Hassidim (and market design) and Katrina Ligett (and privacy) celebrated in Israel

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"The Marker," the biggest economic newspaper in Israel, includes two researchers who will be familiar to many readers of this blo...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Transplantation is one of the casualties of Venezuela's economic crisis

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The Pulitzer Center reports: The Waiting List: Organ Transplants in Venezuela "The government-managed organ procurement system tha...
Monday, November 26, 2018

Is legal commercial surrogacy coming to New York and Michigan?

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New York and Michigan are two states in which  surrogacy is illegal, but the winds of change are blowing, with new legislation that would l...
Sunday, November 25, 2018

The Guardian celebrates British kidney exchange

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One day. Six operations. Three kidneys. The story of an organ donor chain " The process relies on logistical masterminding by staff...
Saturday, November 24, 2018

Economic design in Budapest, June 2019 (submissions are open now)

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Paper submissions are now invited for the 2019 Conference on Economic Design: Budapest, Hungary, June 12-14, 2019 The Scope: The con...
Friday, November 23, 2018

Some movement towards kidney exchange in Germany

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Axel Ockenfels writes: "On 9 November 2018, members of the parliament of the German liberal party FDP submitted a petition ("C...
Thursday, November 22, 2018

Professional line sitters: Giving the gift of time

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Have an urgent need to shop Black Friday bargains, but don't like waiting on lines in the cold and dark?  There's a business that w...
Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Kidney exchange in Turkey, some recent reports

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Here are an academic paper on the kidney exchange program at Baskent University, and a news story about a kidney exchange in Turkey between...