Saturday, November 1, 2025

Experimental economics at the University of Pittsburgh

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 I recently had the opportunity to visit my old haunts at the University of Pittsburgh, and took part in a reopening and re-dedication of th...
Friday, October 31, 2025

Market Design Impact Award to Hassidim, Romm, and Shorrer

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 The Hebrew University breaks the news with this congratulatory message : "Congratulations to our very own Assaf Romm  and coauthors! ...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

Funeral expense reimbursement to enhance organ donation and transplantation , by Chan and Sweat

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 It's legal to pay funeral expenses for whole-body donors (for research) but not for organ donors for transplantation.  Here's a cal...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

The role of 'public entrepreneurs' in city government (and a shoutout to Jeremy Lack)

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With a focus on New York City's mayoral election  next week,  this Bloomberg.com column considers things that mayors can do, including  ...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Yuck! and the long journey to a book title

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  As I mentioned in yesterday's post , I'm working on the galleys of my forthcoming book, Moral Economics . This has reminded me o...
Monday, October 27, 2025

New book! Moral Economics: From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work--forthcoming!

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   I have a forthcoming book, (at long last) and it now even has a cover. (Note the halo:)  I'm reading the galleys right now...   Moral...
Sunday, October 26, 2025

Gender Differences in Economics Seminars (forthcoming in the AER)

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 Economics seminars are complex, and not always tea parties. Here's a detailed look, by many investigators, via the analysis of many aud...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

Enhancing Scientific Integrity in the Social and Behavioral Sciences--Nominate an Expert for an NAS workshop

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  The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are soliciting nominations for a workshop on  Enhancing Scientific Integrity...
Friday, October 24, 2025

NBA gambling indictments

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 The NYT has the story of the latest sports -gambling scandal in which several NBA players and veterans were arrested for giving gamblers i...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Algorithmic Collusion Without Threats

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 Quanta magazine reports on a recent paper on algorithmic collusion (in which a big class of "dumb" strategies can settle on high ...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Divergent views on behavioral economics: books by Loewenstein and Chater, and Thaler and Imas

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 You could hardly have two more different books on behavioral economics, both by important contributors to the field. Chater and Loewenstein...
Monday, October 20, 2025

Do we need to worry that surrogacy will be banned in the US? (by the UN??)

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  Stat News has a call to prevent surrogacy from being banned, following a recent UN resolution to do just that. How to keep commercial sur...
Sunday, October 19, 2025

Harvard University's Financial Report for 2025

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 Here is Harvard's  Financial Report FISCAL YEAR 2025  Here's the first paragraph of the Message from the President ;  "Message...
Friday, October 17, 2025

The international black market in stolen smartphones

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Modern "pick pockets" are now  mounted on ebikes and swiping smartphones...  The NYT has the story: London Became a Global Hub for...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

Experiments and behavioral market design at Pitt (tomorrow)

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 I'm flying  back to my old haunts in Pittsburgh today, for (among other things) two events at the University of Pittsburgh tomorrow:   ...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

U.Penn celebrates Judd Kessler's new book with a short excerpt

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 You can read an excerpt from the introduction to Judd Kessler 's new book Lucky by Design (which came out yesterday) here:  The Hidde...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Investigating human and LLM psychology by prompting LLMs to play experimental economics games: Xie, Mei, Yuan, and Jackson in PNAS

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 The great science fiction writer of my youth was Isaac Asimov, who not only wrote space opera (The Foundation Trilogy), but also wrote abo...
Monday, October 13, 2025

Peace is a process (and so is disarmament)

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  Peace is a process, not always a quick one. This, from the NYT: A Crackdown on a Deadly Wedding Custom Marriages and other glad occasions ...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

John Gurdon (1933-2025)

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One hope for a future free of the need for human organ transplants is that it might become possible to re-initiate the process by which embr...
Saturday, October 11, 2025

“I will not be bookended by two fascist regimes.” writes Joachim Frank of Columbia University

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  Joachim Frank , who shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, powerfully condemns the attacks on universities, and what he sees as the fai...