Sunday, January 14, 2024

"Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia?" Freakonomics interviews Max Bazerman and others

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Below is the latest Freakonomics podcast (and transcript), on fraud in academia.  Those most in the headlines weren't available to be in...
Saturday, January 13, 2024

The Everything Token. By Steve Kaczynski and Scott Duke Kominers

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 Here's a look into a possible future of the web (but it's still available in hardcover): The Everything Token.   HOW NFTS AND WEB3 ...
Friday, January 12, 2024

Medical aid in dying, and slippery slopes--the debate in Britain

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 The Oxford blog Practical Ethics considers medical aid in dying (MAID), and the slippery slope arguments that accompany current debates on...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

Slippery slope

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  A slippery slope is a metaphor sometimes used to oppose a change that may seem good in itself, but might lead to further changes that we ...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Pope Francis calls for a ban on surrogacy

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 The Catholic Church has long opposed in-vitro fertilization (IVF), one of the technological tools that allows surrogacy, on the grounds tha...
Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Brain death for organ donation, and its relation to controversy about abortion

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 Here's a summary of the current discussion of brain death (and its possible connection to the debate on whether a fetus is a living per...
Monday, January 8, 2024

"Scraping poison off the bone": Transplants in China without organs from executed prisoners

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 Following a long period in which the bulk of China's organ transplants used organs from executed prisoners, there have been steady effo...
Sunday, January 7, 2024

Market Design for Surface Water , by Ferguson and Milgrom

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 The potential market for surface water is a market in which any transfer of rights involves externalities affecting the water consumption o...
Saturday, January 6, 2024

Matching Markets and Inequality, in Exeter in June: call for papers

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 Here's the announcement and call for papers: Matching Markets and Inequality Workshop , Department of Economics University of Exeter Bu...
Friday, January 5, 2024

Coalition to Modify NOTA (the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984)

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  Elaine Perlman forwards the following discussion points: Coalition to Modify NOTA Talking Points modifyNOTA.org What is the Coalition...
Thursday, January 4, 2024

Topics in Market Design: Econ 287/365: Winter quarter, Itai Ashlagi

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Itai Ashlagi will be teaching Econ 287 this quarter, on topics in market design.  It's highly recommended. He writes that the syllabus b...
Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Pilot projects to speed deceased donor organ allocation

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I won't use the word "experiments" for fear of the evil eye, but the OPTN is planning to authorize 'pilot programs' to...
Tuesday, January 2, 2024

What's ahead for U.S. organ allocation in the coming year

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 Here's the December announcement from HRSA of their plans for reforming organ procurement and allocation this year.   Organ Procurement...
Monday, January 1, 2024

Market design for the environment, by Cantillon and Slechten

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 Here's a recent NBER working paper, to start the year off on an optimistic note: MARKET DESIGN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT , by Estelle Cantill...
Sunday, December 31, 2023

The year in passings

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Another year, more memories and memorials: Sunday, January 29, 2023 Paul David (1935-2023) Monday, January 30, 2023 Tonya Ingram (1991-2022)...