Friday, August 15, 2025

Special issue of Economic Theory in Honor of David K. Levine

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 David K. Levine is celebrated: Introduction to the Special Issue in Honor of David K. Levine   by César Martinelli , Economic Theory.  09 ...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

Alcohol is being out-competed by nicotine (and maybe by pretty good non-alcoholic beer)

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 The WSJ has the story: Nicotine Is Hot, Beer Is Not. What Vice Stocks Say About America’s Guilty Pleasures. People are smoking less, but to...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Covid vaccines saved millions of lives, mostly of older people

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Here's a recent estimate of lives saved by Covid vaccines. Ioannidis JPA, Pezzullo AM, Cristiano A, Boccia S. Global Estimates of Lives...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Heroines of organ donation

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Last week I had the opportunity to see a screening of the movie Abundant , about non-directed organ donors, who have donated organs to stran...
Monday, August 11, 2025

Lucky by Design: The Hidden Economics You Need to Get More of What You Want, by Judd Kessler

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 Here's a great new book about how to navigate markets, by Judd Kessler, who knows his way around. Lucky by Design: The Hidden Economics...
Sunday, August 10, 2025

Visualizing single versus multi-center kidney exchange: Dr. Vivek Kute

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  Dr. Vivek Kute is the transplant nephrologist at one of the most active single-center kidney exchange programs in the world.  When he sp...
Saturday, August 9, 2025

Withdrawals from deceased donor registries

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The NYT is standing by its recent stories on deceased organ donation. In the meantime  Newsweek has this story about people who have had sec...
Friday, August 8, 2025

John Harsanyi: the story behind the Hungarian memorial coin (by Miklos Pinter)

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 Rosemarie Nagel and Miklos Pinter have sent me the following story about how Miklos helped design the game-theoretic image on the Hungaria...
Thursday, August 7, 2025

Stanford conference on extending kidney exchange

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  We'll be welcoming many of our transplantation colleagues to a conference at Stanford today.     ######### Earlier: Tuesday, February...
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Fake science at scale, via organized paper mills (in PNAS and the NYT)

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 Here's a recent paper from PNAS, analyzing the organized activity of paper mills producing fraudulent papers. The entities enabling sci...
Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Crypto art by Scott Kominers

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Scott Kominers is interviewed about crypto art, by Lorepunk: How Harvard Professor Scott Kominers Makes PFP Puzzles Out Of Math Lorepunk ...
Monday, August 4, 2025

Brain drugs, a review (performance enhancement, side effects, and addiction)

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 From the Free Press,  tasting notes on a variety of performance enhancing drugs for concentration, finally converging on what sounds like n...
Sunday, August 3, 2025

Xenotransplantation in Humans: pig organs edge closer to being clinically kosher

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  It has long been the conventional wisdom in transplantation that xenotransplants--transplanting a kidney from a genetically modified pig ...
Saturday, August 2, 2025

Nicotine news--unintended consequences

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 Nicotine remains a big source of addiction, and (especially in connection with cigarette smoking) a major cause of premature death.  Here...
Friday, August 1, 2025

US Waitlist Registrants who Received Transplantation Abroad

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 Here's a recent article about patients waiting for a deceased-donor organ transplant in the U.S. who (instead) received one overseas (a...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

COMSOC 2025 workshop on Computational Social Choice, Vienna, Austria, 17-19 September 2025.

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  COMSOC 2025 is the 10th workshop in the interdisciplinary workshop series on Computational Social Choice. It will take place at the TU Wi...
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Early hiring and late poaching

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 Akhil Vohra's paper on unraveling is in the latest AEJ:Micro. It proposes a novel cause of unraveling of labor markets.  Unraveling--ea...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Tea and Hacking: Privacy and dating

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 Here's a modern short story about privacy, and dating.  A dating app allowed women to widely share information about men.  The app aske...