Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Can YouTube's recommender engine tone down conspiracy theories?

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The NY Times has the story: Can YouTube Quiet Its Conspiracy Theorists? A new study examines YouTube’s efforts to limit the spread of co...
Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Kidney exchange at the 34th Advanced HLA Technical Workshop

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I'll be speaking tomorrow morning, March 4, at the 34th Advanced HLA Technical Workshop ,  at the Omni Rancho Las Palmas Resort in Ran...
Monday, March 2, 2020

NSF 70th Anniversary Symposium--the video

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I recently attended the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the National Science Foundation , a two-day symposium on Feb. 6-7, 2020. Bel...
Sunday, March 1, 2020

Don't need no education -- arguments about California propositions to raise revenue for community colleges

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I'm spending part of the day perusing the California ballot for Tuesday's elections, which include not only the widely anticipated,...

The oldest extant companies in the world

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Old companies are interesting, especially given the view that (short term) profit maximization isn't the only thing that companies migh...
Saturday, February 29, 2020

The 1918 influenza pandemic

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Communications failures played a role in the 1918 pandemic: A flu that brought nations to a standstill   Jennifer A. Summers "The ...
Friday, February 28, 2020

Regretting the dating market, in the Atlantic

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In the Atlantic, the authors regret that marriages are no longer made in heaven, but are becoming a market... The ‘Dating Market’ Is Gett...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

Proposal to decriminalize polygamy in Utah

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Marriage is special, a protected transaction in the U.S. and elsewhere, and that has led to odd situations as social mores change.  Same se...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Crime and punishment in the sex trade--an ongoing controversy in the U.S.

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Two stories in the NY Times speak of the difficulty of regulating the sex trade, which may consist of both voluntary sex workers and victim...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Pay transparency in the NY Times

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An article on the virtues of pay transparency in the NY Times publishes the salaries of all Times editors, reporters and columnists... just...
Monday, February 24, 2020

Good things to do after a kidney transplant: save an NHL game as an Emergency Backup Goalie (EBUG)

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It turns out that in the NHL there is an Emergency Backup Goalie (EBUG) who is available to either team should the need arise. In this case...

Markets and Coordination by Preston McAfee and Simon Wilkie

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A high level overview of market design: Teaching Old Markets New Tricks  (gated, in Project Syndicate, Jan 23, 2020) (ungated version: ...
Sunday, February 23, 2020

Exchanges for single earrings, odd shoes

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Here's a NY Times story about what to do if you've lost one of a pair of earrings (and don't want to become a pirate...) The ...

Bob Montgomery, a transplant surgeon with a (new) heart, in the WSJ

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The WSJ has the story: A Transplant Surgeon Is Operating Again—With a New Heart Robert Montgomery has resumed performing surgery after re...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

College Admissions--the musical (casting call)

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Here's the casting call, from Playbill. (College admissions is interesting, and so is the labor market for theatrical performances...) ...

Reading for marketplace designers from Andreessen Horowitz

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Scott Kominers forwards this interesting reading list (which includes a nice summary of market design by him and Tom Eisenmann): Reading ...
Friday, February 21, 2020

School choice, centralized and decentralized, in Japan, a century ago, by Tanaka, Narita and Moriguchi

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I heard Yusuke Narita present this remarkable paper comparing centralized and decentralized school matching at a recent seminar at Stanford...
Thursday, February 20, 2020

Coffee is good for you, and how it became a worldwide market--Ashok Rai at Williams College

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First the good news from coffee science, via the NY Times Is Coffee Good for You? Yes! But it depends on the kind of coffee and the quan...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Visa allocation, by Pathak, Rees-Jones and Sönmez

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Here's a look at current U.S. visa allocation policies from a market design perspective. Immigration  Lottery  Design:  Engineered  ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Market design and algorithmic criminal justice--by Jung, Kannan, Lee, Pai, Roth and Vohra

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When fairness isn't your only goal, your other goals may help you choose among competing definitions of fairness. Fair Prediction wit...