Thursday, March 13, 2025

Colombia proposes coca leaf legalization

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 The Guardian has the story: Colombia urges UN to remove coca leaf from harmful substances list Foreign minister says legalisation of main i...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Nicotine underlip: Zyn, snu to manage (and start) nicotine addiction

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Move over vapes: more ways to access nicotine without starting a fire: (I understand these are quite popular among our MBA students...)   Th...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Technology and the health care labor force--perfusionists

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 The evolving health care labor force provides a window on technology and employment.  There are now a substantial number of clinical perfus...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Immigration policy and the U.S. health care labor force (David Cutler in JAMA Health)

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 Many American health care workers are immigrants, so a reduction in immigration is likely to have consequences for health care. Trump’s Mos...
Sunday, March 9, 2025

Trans Forming Liberty. Amy Sherald at SFMOMA

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 Sometimes politics make an artwork even more politically fraught than when it was painted.      
Saturday, March 8, 2025

Is market design insidious?

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  Is market design not just performative, but insidious?  Here's a paper arguing that might be the case. Nik-Khah, E. (2025). Platformin...
Friday, March 7, 2025

Toledo celebrates Mike Rees

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 Here's the announcement from the University of Toledo: University Recognizes Faculty Members with Distinguished Honor  "Rees joine...
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Presidential communication styles: Obama vs Trump (via Jimmy Kimmel)

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 Most of the commentary on recent presidential initiatives focuses, appropriately, on substance. But style is important too, and revealing. ...
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Demonstrating for science (in Washington and elsewhere)

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 Scientists are more accustomed to demonstrating science than demonstrating for science, but that may need to change. Nature has the story...
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Universities and democracies

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 Universities and democracies are neither entirely the same nor entirely different. Here's the New Yorker story on Harvard: Will Harvard...
Monday, March 3, 2025

Tesla Owners Beware of Vandalism (email)

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 There is some debate in the business literature about what effect taking a public position on controversial social and political issues has...
Sunday, March 2, 2025

Train robbery in the 21st Century

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The LA Times has the story about how it's done these days: Inside the Mojave Desert train heists targeting Nike sneakers  By Alex Wiggle...
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Kidney transplant black market in Myanmar

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 BBC Burma has the story (I guess they haven't updated their country name...no doubt they still refer to the Gulf of Mexico, too:)  The ...
Friday, February 28, 2025

Kevin Sontheimer (1938-2025)

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 My old friend and colleague Kevin Sontheimer has died.  He was a great leader of Pitt’s economics department when I was there, not just w...
Thursday, February 27, 2025

Kidney exchange: the donor stories, and the movie Abundant

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 I'm learning a bit about movie production by following the progress of the movie Abundant, which is about to have a pre-release premier...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Abortion bans have increased both births and infant mortality (JAMA)

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 Not unexpectedly: US Abortion Bans and Infant Mortality , by Alison Gemmill, PhD1; Alexander M. Franks, PhD2; Selena Anjur-Dietrich, PhD1; ...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Summer School in Experimental and Behavioral Economic, University of Crete, July 2025

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 Here's an announcement of a summer school in experimental economics this summer in Crete We are delighted to announce the  2nd Summer...