Thursday, October 19, 2023

Blood use in the U.S., in JAMA

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  Here are a collection of articles, some of which suggest that we may in the not so distant future face a shortage of whole blood in the U....
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Peter Singer on brain death

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  Here's Peter Singer's op-ed in the Washington Post on the debate over brain death, presently used to decide when deceased donor or...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

The international market for squid (and how squid came to be calamari...)

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China's fishing fleet plays a giant role in the international market for squid. The New Yorker has the story: THE CRIMES BEHIND THE SEAF...
Monday, October 16, 2023

Refugee resettlement and the top trading cycles algorithm, by Farajzadeh, Killea, Teytelboym, and Trapp

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  Here's a recent paper that (among other things) considers using the top trading cycles algorithm for matching refugees to sponsors (un...
Sunday, October 15, 2023

Hamas, Gaza and American universities: more letters, and two speeches

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  First, letters from the President of the Hebrew University to his counterparts at Harvard and Stanford: “You Have Failed Us” Letters by He...
Saturday, October 14, 2023

Ariel Pakes celebrated at the Nemmers Prize conference

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  Ariel Pakes could certainly also win the prize for being loved by his students and colleagues:  CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF ARIEL PAKES
Friday, October 13, 2023

Fentanyl

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  The NY Times has the story: Some Key Facts About Fentanyl . It’s lowering American life expectancy and influencing the nation’s politics. ...
Thursday, October 12, 2023

Thinking locally about Hamas, and murderous antisemitism, on college campuses

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  How should universities deal with controversy in the midst of horrors? Both Harvard and Stanford are having troubles with talking about Is...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Ran Abramitzky interviews me on market design (followed by a good Q&A with Stanford freshmen)

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Here's the video recording of our conversation  
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Econometric Society Fellows (2023), procedures, and some thoughts on prizes in general

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The Econometric Society has announced its newest class of Fellows. I don't know them all, but I bet they all deserve that distinction, b...
Monday, October 9, 2023

Claudia Goldin wins the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics

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 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023 was awarded  today to the indefatigable Claudia Goldin ...
Sunday, October 8, 2023

Dead or alive? Debates about defining brain death and circulatory death in the medical literature

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Before the invention of ventilator technology, circulatory death ('cardiorespiratory death') and brain death ('neurological deat...