Thursday, April 30, 2026

Australia has more unpaid beekeepers than blood donors

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 If only there were some way for Australia to become self-sufficient in blood plasma, so it could stop having to buy it from the US... The F...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Stanford celebrates Ran Abramitzky's studies of immigration

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 The Stanford Daily interviews Ran Abramitzky , on the occasion of his winning a Guggenheim fellowship: Guggenheim fellow Ran Abramitzky se...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Moral Economics: a brief review in the Sunday Times ("fascinating and very different":)

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 A column (on unemployment) in the Sunday Times by it's economics editor  David Smith, ends with a brief review of Moral Economics, as a...
Monday, April 27, 2026

Thumbs-up pictures in Taiwan, and kidney notes

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 Photographers in Taiwan often ask their subjects to raise their thumbs (see all our thumbs below), just as American photographers ask for s...
Saturday, April 25, 2026

Night markets in Taiwan

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Night markets in Taiwan are like open-air food courts in which each seller sells a single food preparation.         This last photo, of a se...
Friday, April 24, 2026

Playing dirty on Polymarket--Insider trading on information, and on manipulation

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Here are news reports on two kinds of insider trading on prediction markets: predicting what you are (or someone close to you is) going to d...
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Organ donation after euthanasia in the Netherlands

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In the Netherlands, not only is it legal to receive medical aid in dying (MAID), but  a growing number of MAID patients are able to successf...

Moral Economics, on the Passion Struck podcast

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In the run up to the May publication date, I've been interviewed on a variety of podcasts about my book Moral Economics: From Prostituti...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Moral Economics, on the Armchair Expert podcast

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At the Armchair Expert podcast, Dax Shepard interviewed me in anticipation of the May publication of my book Moral Economics: From Prostit...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Market Design and Kidney Exchange at NTHU: Public Lecture in Taiwan (video)

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 Here is a video of a public lecture I gave at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in Taiwan. It begins at around 13:40 (and if I've d...
Monday, April 20, 2026

Lund University anticipates EU-wide kidney exchange, and celebrates Tommy Andersson

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European kidney exchange is making progress:)   Kidney Transplants Save Lives, Cut Taxpayer Costs   Lund University Sweden's kidney exc...

New Chinese edition of Who Gets What and Why

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 There's a new (October, 2025) Chinese edition of my 2015 book Who Gets What ― and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Des...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

Funeral expenses for deceased organ donors in Taiwan

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 In Taiwan, the Ministry of Health and Welfare helps pay for the funerals of deceased organ donors.  From the Taiwan Organ Sharing Registry ...
Saturday, April 18, 2026

The diffusion of space warfare: commercial satellites play a role in (everyone's) battlefield intelligence

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There's now a vibrant market for real-time commercial satellite photos.   Defense One has the story from the Persian Gulf: US must adjus...
Friday, April 17, 2026

Market Design and Medicine, in Taiwan (public lectures at National Tsing Hua University)

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I'll be in Taiwan for some talks on Monday and Tuesday at National Tsing Hua University NTHU Nobel Laureate Lecture Series: Prof. Alvin ...
Thursday, April 16, 2026

Frederick Hillier (1936-2026)

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 I never took a course from Fred Hillier when I was a PhD student in the Department of Operations Research at Stanford from 1971-73, but as ...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Unraveling in law clerk recruitment, along political lines

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 "What's past is prologue:" law clerkships are unraveling yet again, with conservative judges defecting first. The Harvard Cri...
Monday, April 13, 2026

Complex tragedy in a headline: Israeli Court Lets Parents of Gaza Hostage Killed by IDF Fire to Use Son's Sperm for IVF

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 Rarely does a headline capture so much of a complicated tragedy.  Read it at least twice. From Haaretz:  Israeli Court Lets Parents of Gaza...
Sunday, April 12, 2026

First box of books

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Moral Economics won't be for sale until May 12, but the supply chain is stirring: my publisher sent me a box of finished copies.
Saturday, April 11, 2026

Trust and medicine: Marcella Alsan on Econ to Go

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  One of the big lessons of market design is that markets need social support to work well. That applies with particular force to the market...