Friday, May 8, 2026

It’s time to carefully but urgently rethink payments to kidney donors. My op-ed in the Washington Post

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 This morning the Washington Post published my op-ed online (which is scheduled to appear in the print edition on Sunday). 800 words is hard...
Thursday, May 7, 2026

The Right to Choose to Die. Alvin Roth interviewed by Tim Phillips 1 May 2026 (VoxTalks Economics)

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 Disputes about medical aid in dying are as contentious in Britain as in the US. Here's some discussion on VoxTalks Economics, in connec...
Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Peter Rousseau comments on our field experiment involving the Econ job market, in PNAS

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 My post yesterday was about the experiment about social media and the job market for economists.  I only noticed later that the PNAS also ...
Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Social media, job market outcomes, and ethics of field experiments, by Qiu, Chen, Cohn and Roth in PNAS

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 One of the fun things about our paper published in today's PNAS is that, as a working paper, it prompted a vigorous discussion of the e...
Monday, May 4, 2026

The Cannabis Industry’s New Best Friend? President Trump

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It's a sign of the times that this sensible administrative initiative makes me ask:  Has the Trump organization just invested in marijua...
Sunday, May 3, 2026

Federal Appeals Court Temporarily Halts Abortion Pill Access by Mail, Appeal to SCOTUS

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 Is the state of Louisiana harmed if women living there can receive abortion pills by mail? Federal Appeals Court Temporarily Halts Abortion...
Saturday, May 2, 2026

Amazon's list of best non-fiction books coming out in May

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 Here is Amazon's list of   Best Nonfiction books of May .  (You have to scroll to the right to see Moral Economics , but I'm still...
Friday, May 1, 2026

Introduction to market design and medicine: video of my public lecture in Taiwan

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 Here's a video of the talk I gave in Taiwan on Markets, marketplaces and medicine. My talk begins at around minute 9:35, after introduc...
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...