Thursday, October 8, 2026

First Hungarian 3-way kidney exchange

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 Semmelweis University announces the first 3-pair kidney exchange in Hungary. (HT:  Péter Biró   ). For the first time in Hungary, Semmelwei...
Wednesday, October 7, 2026

The first 100 cases of organ donation after euthanasia in the Netherlands

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 Here's a controversial market with something for everyone to argue about: organ donation after euthanasia, including psychiatric patien...
Monday, October 5, 2026

Moral Economics in Portuguese

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  Moral Economics has been translated into Portuguese in Brazil, as Economia moral   Economia moral (Portuguese Edition) Portuguese Edition...
Sunday, October 4, 2026

Post-Nobel reflections by recent winners (on the eve of a new batch:).“Even my teacher has heard of that prize!”

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 Next week will hatch a new batch of Nobel laureates.  From Stanford and Harvard, here are some thoughts from (among others) Paul Milgrom an...
Saturday, October 3, 2026

Time magazine celebrates my Stanford colleague Adrien Bilal

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  Time magazine celebrates my Stanford colleague Adrien Bilal T IME100 Next 2026: The World's Most Influential Rising Stars: Adrien Bila...
Friday, October 2, 2026

International Workshop on Bounded Rationality In honour of Professor Reinhard Selten. Poznań, 5 October 2026

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 On what would have been his 96th birthday, a hybrid (in person and online) conference in honor of the late Reinhard Selten .  Here's th...
Thursday, October 1, 2026

First Date: Singapore's government dating app

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The government of Singapore is rolling out a dating site, initially as "A pilot for public officers only."  It infers preferences ...
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Bob Montgomery, transplant surgeon and transplant recipient, in the NYT

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The NY Times has a story about the complicated life and busy career of NYU transplant surgeon Bob Montgomery, who is also a transplant recip...
Tuesday, September 29, 2026

The Carob Trust Prize for Academic Courage: An award for scientists who overcome unjustified attacks on their work

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 Here's the announcement of a new prize, initially to be awarded for work in the social sciences, reflecting the fact that social scienc...
Monday, September 28, 2026

Ukraine weighs legalizing pornography to raise tax revenue and buy drones

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 Here's a story from the WaPo whose headline already conveys a lot about the economics of tradeoffs: Ukraine weighs legalizing pornograp...
Sunday, September 27, 2026

Iran's kidney market, reviewed in Al-Madina: Journal of Islamic Law

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The new English language journal  Madina: Journal of Islamic Law  has, in it's inaugural issue, a literature review of the Iranian kidne...
Saturday, September 26, 2026

Organ trafficking research

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 Frederike Ambagtsheer  is the principal investigator of a Dutch project conducting  organ trafficking research , whose website  discusses t...
Friday, September 25, 2026

Heroin, hitmen and black markets on Behavioral Grooves

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The hosts of the podcast  Behavioral Grooves open by chatting about heroin and hitmen, followed by a discussion among the three of us:     ...
Thursday, September 24, 2026

Moral Economics in Korean

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Here's the first commercial translation I've seen of my book Moral Economics , which appeared in English in May 2026.  I suspect tha...
Wednesday, September 23, 2026

School choice: peer effects and social justice

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 The not-so-secret secret of building a good school is to have good students. And sometimes that can lead to conflicts between the desire to...