Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Kidney Markets--my debate with Debra Satz (video)

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The video of my debate with Debra Satz on kidney markets is now available, see below.   You can also find it here:  https://humsci.stanford...
Monday, April 22, 2024

Plasma donation in the EU: compensated and uncompensated

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 Here's a commentary on the EU Parliament's current efforts to ban compensation to plasma donors in the EU, published today.  Julio ...
Sunday, April 21, 2024

The Curious Culture of Economic Theory by Ran Spiegler

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  Ran Spiegler has new book about the academic culture of the theory part of the Economics profession.  It's open source, so you can sa...
Saturday, April 20, 2024

Call for papers: special issue on Market Design at Mathematics of Operations Research

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  Paul Milgrom and Martin Bichler write: We are excited to announce that, as an initiative arising from discussions during the fall program,...
Friday, April 19, 2024

Sports and celebrity (salary and income)

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 Basketball superstar Caitlin Clark recently went pro for a salary of $76,535.  What's going on?  The LA Times has the story of rags and...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Top Trading Cycles (TTC) and the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Mathematical Economics

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  This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Mathematical Economics, and also of the Top Trading Cycles (TTC) algorithm that was...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Signaling in medical residency applications

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 We're starting to see descriptive studies of how signals are being used in the labor market for new doctors.  Each medical specialty ha...