Monday, August 31, 2026

Market design from the Perspective of Theological Anthropology, by Christina McRorie (in the January 2027 ASSA program)

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I'm always on the lookout for different perspectives on market design, and here's a paper that caught my eye in the   ASSA Prelimina...
Sunday, August 30, 2026

This Land is My Brand: From Woody Guthrie to DJ Trump

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  President Trump's renaming* of Lake Ontario got me thinking about the famous song by Woody Guthrie,  This Land Is Your Land . Its chor...
Saturday, August 29, 2026

Advice for young academic economists, by William Thomson

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 I just received my copy of William Thomson 's excellent new book:  A Guide for the Young Economist, third edition by William Thomson  ...
Friday, August 28, 2026

The Gray Area, on Moral Economics and controversial markets

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 Here's a podcast recorded some weeks ago that has just  been published . We talk kidneys and other controversial markets covered in Mo...
Thursday, August 27, 2026

Reverse fertility tourism--Americans traveling abroad for more affordable IVF

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The US is a destination for people needing assisted reproductive technology (ART) to have a child, often because it is unavailable in their ...
Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Axel Ockenfels, interviewed about market design

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Here's a recent interview of Axel Ockenfels, about market design. Interview Marc Kley 1. Professor Ockenfels, your work focuses on the d...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Regulated and black market marijuana in Germany

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 The FT has the story: Germany becomes Europe’s largest regulated cannabis market.  Critics are calling for legislation to be tightened two ...
Monday, August 24, 2026

Abortion opponents seeking to ban surrogacy in Texas (and supporters are thinking about more regulation)

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 Human reproduction gives rise to lots of different controversies, with the partisans not always aligned across issues the ways you might su...
Sunday, August 23, 2026

Reasons to be cheerful discusses kidney exchange

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 The magazine Reasons to be cheerful has a cheerful discussion of kidney exchange (which includes some reflections by Mike Rees on non-sim...
Saturday, August 22, 2026

Martin Dufwenberg is celebrated at Purdue

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  Purdue recognizes Martin Dufwenberg as a distinguished professor. (Here's his Google Scholar page .) Here's the Purdue announce...
Friday, August 21, 2026

NBER workshop on Market Design, Stanford, Oct 16-17, call for papers

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 Here's the call for papers for the NBER workshop on market design, at Stanford in October. "To: NBER Market Design Working Group...