Friday, July 31, 2026

Delayed feedback on a controversial talk--and some positive signals of potential for change

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 One feature of giving talks to unfamiliar audiences is that you only get noisy feedback on how your talk was received.  This past June, I g...
Thursday, July 30, 2026

American Red Cross Declares Second-Ever National Blood Supply Crisis

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 Voluntary donation of whole blood in the US has provided adequate supply for many years, but since Covid it has sometimes come close to a s...
Monday, July 27, 2026

Multi-hospital kidney exchange in Brazil

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An article in Floha de S. Paulo, tells of the first inter-hospital kidney exchange in Brazil:   Transplante renal pareado amplia opção para ...
Sunday, July 26, 2026

Program for the Workshop on Game Theory and Economic Applications, São Paulo, July 26-August 2

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  Here's a high level overview of the program , which begins today. And here's the detailed day by day program .   I'm expectin...
Saturday, July 25, 2026

4th International Workshop on Game Theory and Economic Applications, São Paulo, July 26-August 2

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 My old friend, colleague and coauthor Marilda Sotomayor is presiding over a big game theory conference in São Paulo this coming week.  Here...
Friday, July 24, 2026

Auction markets for compute capacity as a pathway to building AI

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 Dr. Silvia Console Battilana who partnered with Paul Milgrom to found the auction consulting firm Auctionomics, writes about markets for co...
Thursday, July 23, 2026

Kidney exchange in Germany can draw on the experience in other countries

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 Here's an editorial arguing that as the recently legalized kidney exchange in Germany is implemented, attention should be paid to the c...
Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Surrogacy: a political scandal in Germany, and fertility tourism around the world

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 Here's a story in the NYT, covering an uproar that's been in the German newspapers for a week or so now.  A leader in the German go...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Are vouchers appropriate for hard-to-match patient-donor kidney exchange pairs?

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 A recent letter from Mayo Clinic transplant providers raises concerns related to bad outcomes when some patient-donor pairs are separated (...
Monday, July 20, 2026

Exam schools, gifted programs, and "giftedness"

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 Are some children more gifted than others, and can they be identified in ways that aren't irreparably confounded with socioeconomic sta...
Sunday, July 19, 2026

Declaring death is sometimes difficult (not just in connection with organ donation)

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 I've written about the determination of death prior to deceased-donor organ donation, but it turns out that there are other hard cases....
Saturday, July 18, 2026

MAID in France

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 After a multi-year legislative struggle, France's  Assemblée Nationale legalized medical aid in dying for some patients. Le Monde has t...
Friday, July 17, 2026

Is Healthcare a Moral Marketplace?

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I was delighted to be invited to discuss healthcare with Drs Wendy Dean and Matt Ramsey.  We had a discussion ranging from the health care m...