Saturday, December 9, 2023

JOE Job Openings for Economists: 2023 versus the past 4 years

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  Here's t he latest note on the job market from the AEA's  Committee on the Job Market .  It reflects a tight job market (but may a...
Friday, December 8, 2023

Computers in Econ (and in market design)

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 The current issue of the journal Œconomia. is devoted to  The Computerization of Economics. Computers, Programming, and the Internet in the...
Thursday, December 7, 2023

Drug addiction: not just opioids

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 Consumption of addictive drugs seems to come in deadly cocktails these days, which is making interdiction of drugs, and treatment of addict...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Applying for medical residencies: a consensus statement from Internal Medicine

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 The Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine has released a "consensus statement" with many proposals about application and interv...
Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Organ & Body Donations: John Oliver

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Laugh through the tears with John Oliver:
Monday, December 4, 2023

Convalescent plasma: the picture is getting clearer

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  Slowly, there is evidence accumulating that convalescent plasma is helpful in treating patients with severe Covid, if it is administered e...
Sunday, December 3, 2023

Photos from the daily market design activity at Stanford

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Two photos remind me of the day to day market design activity at Stanford.  Tinglong Dai joined our Wednesday market design coffee and sent ...
Saturday, December 2, 2023

Design of (international) kidney exchange: ex-post rejection versus ex-ante withholding

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 Here's a paper by several Dutch computer scientists, which seems to be motivated by the problem of international kidney exchange within...
Friday, December 1, 2023

Fairness in algorithms: Hans Sigrist Prize to Aaron Roth

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  The University of Bern's Hans Sigrist Prize has been awarded to Penn computer scientist Aaron Roth , and will be celebrated today. He...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

UNOS ends its liver exchange pilot program

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UNOS has shuttered it's liver exchange pilot program, after less than a year, without having performed any liver exchange transplants. (...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Repugnant sales of art: deaccessioning, in Switzerland

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 "Deaccessioning" is a repugnant transaction in the art world, in which it's often considered acceptable to sell art only to f...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

"Professional blood donors" in India (where paying blood donors is illegal)

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  India allows only unpaid blood donation, from altruistic donors or from "replacement donors" who are friends or relations of par...
Monday, November 27, 2023

Banks boycott sex workers even for legal kinds of sex work

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 Repugnance isn't erased by legality. Workers in morally contested, repugnant markets may be boycotted by banks even when their work is ...
Sunday, November 26, 2023

Interview with Vernon L. Smith by Sami Al-Suwailem

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 Here's an interview with Vernon Smith, in which he comments on the history of economics and his place in it. Interview with Vernon L. S...