Thursday, July 20, 2023

Pitfalls of digital scholarship: Machiavelli and Matching

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  One of the alluring features of the digitization of texts is that they can be searched, their citations can be examined and cross-referenc...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Black markets for alcohol in Iran

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 Prohibition (of alcohol) didn't work in the U.S. from 1920-1933, and it's not working in Iran today, despite "the Islamic Repu...
Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Can Britain Fix Its National Health Service?

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 The NYT has the story A National Treasure, Tarnished: Can Britain Fix Its Health Service? As it turns 75, the N.H.S., a proud symbol of Bri...
Monday, July 17, 2023

Affirmative action in India

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  Here's an interesting paper by Orhan  Aygün and Bertan Turhan . It comes with something of a backstory, which accounts for its quite d...
Sunday, July 16, 2023

National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC): I rotate off the advisory board

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  After seven years, I'm rotating off the advisory board of the  National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC). During that time, NLD...
Saturday, July 15, 2023

Marijuana and military recruitment

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 Here's a proposal for a bit pf reality-based legislation that has some bipartisan support. DefenseOne has the story: Proposed marijuana...
Friday, July 14, 2023

Harm reduction is not a panacea: drug use and drug policy in Portugal, and San Francisco

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 The Washington Post has a story about Portugal, and the SF Chronicle has one as well. Both stories touch on the tensions between treating d...
Thursday, July 13, 2023

Laurie Lee interviews me about kidney exchange, repugnance, and more (podcast)

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 Laurie Lee interviews me in her podcast Donor Diaries . Donor Diaries Coffee and Kidneys with Al Roth https://www.buzzsprout.com/1748941/1...
Wednesday, July 12, 2023

The harmful human rights impact of unjustified criminalization of individuals and communities: ICJ statement

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 The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has published a set of legal principles  for a human rights-based approach to criminal laws p...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

NYC police officer receives a kidney through Kidneys for Communities (KFC:)

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 Police magazine has the story of an anonymous living kidney donor who wanted his/her kidney to go to a first responder, facilitated by   Ki...
Monday, July 10, 2023

Compensating kidney donors: a call to action by Brooks and Cavanaugh in the LA Times

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 Here's a clarion call for compensation of living kidney donors, from two nondirected kidney donors.  It's not the first, and very l...
Sunday, July 9, 2023

Sex work contracts are enforceable in small claims court, in Canada

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 In Nova Scotia (where selling sex is legal but buying it is not), a sex worker sued a delinquent client for her fee and won (despite his ar...
Saturday, July 8, 2023

Liver exchange in Turkey

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Here's a forthcoming article in the AJT, reporting on a collaboration between physicians and market designers with experience in kidney ...
Friday, July 7, 2023

Regulating legal prostitution isn't easy, even in Amsterdam

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 The NYT has the story: Amsterdam Tries to Dim the Glare on Its Red-Light District . The mayor wants to improve the neighborhood for residen...
Thursday, July 6, 2023

Cryopreservation of organs for transplants, and Sebastian Giwa in Forbes

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 Forbes has a long, interesting, somewhat breathless story about the progress and promise of freezing organs for transplants, including not ...
Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Eric van Damme is moving on

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 It appears that the great Dutch game theorist Eric van Damme is retiring from Tilburg. Here's the announcement from Tilburg: Outgoing ...