Wednesday, September 16, 2026

"The single most important quality in a great researcher is to be lucky"

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 Here's an interview recorded during my visit to Taiwan this past April.  It begins with my first reply: " The single most importan...
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

A.I. guardrails: Trump Says “a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT" is all that’s needed to rein in A.I.

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 The debate over how to regulate, promote, and defend against new developments in A.I. has taken a market design turn, with increased calls ...
Monday, September 14, 2026

Congestion (and lawsuits) in applications for medical residency

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   The figure below is a slide from a lecture I once gave about the transition from medical school to medical residencies in the U.S.  The l...
Sunday, September 13, 2026

Experimenting on the psychology of LLMs

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 As LLMs become increasingly important, we're starting to see experiments that explore their psychology. (I expect that   Susan Calvin, ...
Friday, September 11, 2026

NBER Market Design Working Group Meeting, October at Stanford, Preliminary program

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 Here's a preliminary program for the October NBER Market Design Working Group Meeting at Stanford Market Design Working Group Meeting O...
Thursday, September 10, 2026

Surrogacy (on each side of the Atlantic)

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 Crossing the Atlantic today, to return home from Paris, this story in The Atlantic seems apropos: Mothers for Sale.  Most of Europe bans co...
Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Xenotransplants will substitute for dialysis before they replace human kidney transplants

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Transplants of organs from genetically modified pigs to humans is making progress, but pig organs haven't yet survived long enough to be...
Tuesday, September 8, 2026

How to Get Away with Merger in a Dialysis Duopoly by T.G. Wollman

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 Here's a paper featured by Microeconomic Insights, which shows that in the highly concentrated dialysis market, in which prices are mos...
Monday, September 7, 2026

A.I. in health care in Paris

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Here's tomorrow's conference agenda  for the opening day of the  Redefining Health Care in the Age of A.I. conference in Paris.  Phi...
Saturday, September 5, 2026

Redefining Healthcare in the Age of A.I., Paris, Sept 8-10

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 I'm in Paris, for the conference  Redefining Healthcare in the Age of AI   "The Paris Institute for Transplantation and Organ Rege...

HHS Announces Winners of the 2026 Prize Challenge to Advance Living Kidney Donation

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  Here's the press release: HHS Announces Winners of the 2026 KidneyX EMPOWER: Living Link Prize Challenge to Advance Living Kidney Dona...
Friday, September 4, 2026

Privacy, A.I. and the backlash against Flock license-plate readers

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  Privacy while driving seems to be more important than privacy while surfing the internet, to judge from recent reactions to automated lice...
Thursday, September 3, 2026

Psychology and Economics at Stanford SITE: Sept 3-4 (Program)

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 Session 18: Psychology and Economics    Thu, Sep 3 2026, 8:00am - Fri, Sep 4 2026, 7:00pm PDT Thursday, September 3, 2026 ...