Sunday, July 4, 2021

Trans as a gender identity

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 New freedoms continue to be recognized. It is not so long ago that sexual orientation and then same sex marriage were at the forefront of t...
Saturday, July 3, 2021

The art of money laundering through the art market

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  What looks like privacy to some looks like secrecy to others. The NY Times has the story: As Money Launderers Buy Dalís, U.S. Looks at Lif...
Friday, July 2, 2021

International (Stonybrook) Virtual Conference on Game Theory July 5 - 8, 2021

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  The program this year looks unusually great. (If it doesn't show up well on mobile, click on the link instead...)  The  event is hoste...
Thursday, July 1, 2021

Data for the people: Emily Oster in the NY Times

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The NY Times writes about Emily Oster , who has pioneered a new way for an economist to be a public intellectual, by bringing to a general a...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Evolutionary Models of Financial Markets in the PNAS

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 Here's the relevant part (with links) of the PNAS Table of Contents for June 29, 2021; Vol. 118, No. 26  Evolutionary Models of Financi...
Tuesday, June 29, 2021

‘Harm Reduction’ Gains Federal Support.

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 Another shot has been fired in the American war against drugs, this time in the battle between those who insist that drug abuse is everywhe...
Monday, June 28, 2021

Kidney exchange (including global kidney exchange), discussed at the European Society of Organ Transplantation meeting in Milan, Tuesday 29 June

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  ESOT: The 20th Congress of the European Society of Organ Transplantation, meeting (by Zoom) in Milan, Italy (so the talks start at 9am pac...
Sunday, June 27, 2021

Can same sex couples adopt and foster children in need? It's complicated...

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  When religion and non-discrimination contest with each other in court, the decisions sometimes rely on the details of the case: The WSJ ha...
Saturday, June 26, 2021

Covid and COVAX, lessons being learned for the next pandemic

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 From the Lancet: A beautiful idea: how COVAX has fallen short by Ann Danaiya Usher, June 19, 2021DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)...
Friday, June 25, 2021

Blood donation, risk groups, and blood tests

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  Before blood tests were developed for hepatitis virus and later for HIV, it made sense to screen potential blood donors by whether they we...
Thursday, June 24, 2021

Health Applications Society Online Seminar Series (Inaugural seminar Friday June 25, on Kidney Exchange)

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A new seminar series is being organized by the Health Applications Society  of INFORMS .  I'll be giving the inaugural seminar tomorrow,...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Payments to college athletes, no longer so repugnant

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 The longstanding debate over whether college athletes must remain unpaid to preserve their 'amateur' status is starting to reach so...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Economists support Andreu Mas-Colell

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  In El Pais (plus Google translate): 33 premios Nobel de Economía y otros 20 destacados economistas escriben en defensa de Andreu Mas-Colel...
Monday, June 21, 2021

Matching patients with effective therapists improves mental health coutcomes

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 A recent paper in JAMA Psychiatry reveals that matching patients to therapists who are effective at treating their particular issues improv...
Sunday, June 20, 2021

The Economics of Covid: The 31st Jerusalem Advanced School in Economic Theory (June 28-30)

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This year's event doesn't involve travel. (Next year in Jerusalem!) T he 31st Jerusalem Advanced School in Economic Theory: The Econ...
Saturday, June 19, 2021

Fur for fashion banned in Israel

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  Here's the story from Ynet: Israel becomes first country to ban sale of fur in fashion trade .   " Israel announced a ban Wednesd...
Friday, June 18, 2021

An Organ Donation Clarification Act is introduced again

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 Here's a new bill introduced into Congress by Matt Cartwright: To amend the National Organ Transplant Act to clarify the definition of ...
Thursday, June 17, 2021

Amartya Sen celebrated in the Harvard Gazette

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  Amartya Sen’s nine-decade journey from colonial India to Nobel Prize and beyond "Many economists focus on explaining and predicting w...