Sunday, February 21, 2010

A National kidney exchange takes another tentative step forward

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UNOS issued the following press release on Friday: Participants Named for National Pilot Project for Kidney Paired Donation "Four organ...
Saturday, February 20, 2010

Sipping lattes while bearing arms

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A NY Times editorial suggests that coffee drinking while carrying is repugnant. (Background: it's legal to carry unconcealed weapons in...

Books about markets for body parts (for and against)

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Below are a mix of books, some scholarly some popular, mostly harvested by clicking on the Amazon links "people who bought this book al...
Friday, February 19, 2010

College admissions in England

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In England, universities faced with unexpectedly many applicants are raising the grades required for admission, which is apparently regarded...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

SF School Board Meeting, Feb 17: new choice system

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At the latest public meeting of the San Francisco Board of Education (last night, Wednesday, Feb. 17), the commissioners and the public were...
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Why isn't the queue longer for deceased donor kidneys?

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There are approximately 80,000 people signed up on the waiting list for deceased donor kidneys in the U.S., and this list has been getting l...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Cat stew

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Italian Food TV Host Under Fire For "Succulent" Cat Stew Recommendation (VIDEO) "Leading Italian food expert, writer and TV h...

Matrimony and dating sites with attitude

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The NY Times reports on the market for online dating and marriage sites that have ideas about who should be matched with whom: Better Loving...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Girls and the Little League

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An obituary of Judge Sylvia Pressler reminds us of some recent history: NJ Judge Who Opened Little League to Girls Dies "While serving ...

Ending "Don't ask don't tell" in the US military

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The day when gay and lesbian soldiers, sailors and airmen will be able to serve openly is coming closer, and Admiral Mike Mullen has called ...
Monday, February 15, 2010

Changes in repugnant transactions are sometimes gradual

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Years from now we may look back on the gradual change in the status of same sex marriage , for example, or the ability of gays and lesbians ...
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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Ten at one blow

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One further thought on National Donor Day. The famous fairy tale " Seven at one blow " reminds us of the power of a succinct summa...
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Today is (also) National Donor Day

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Happy Valentine's Day! Isn't it good to love and be loved? Food for thought: Today is also National Donor Day . " February 14 i...
Saturday, February 13, 2010

Bioethics and bioethicists

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Sally Satel on bioethicists: "Ask almost any hospital physician about bioethicists and you will get, in reliable sequence, an eye roll,...
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Friday, February 12, 2010

Cheating on CS homeworks, and social pressure

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The Temptation to Cheat in Computer Science Classes at Stanford is apparently great (just cut and paste some code if your assignment isn...
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Experiments on moral intuitions

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As I'm not at all sure what is involved in judgments of repugnance, I follow various lines of work, including the very interesting inter...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

Anti-social claiming of parking spots in South Boston (before snow has started)

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A social norm in South Boston that allows people to reserve public parking spots that they have dug out of the snow is unraveling, the Globe...
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Dispute resolution by kidnapping in Yemen

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Al Jazeera reports: Abductions rife in lawless Yemen "The government of Yemen has had to deal with years of severe internal conflicts i...

Iran's nuclear program, and incentives

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A new paper argues that Iran's leaders have succeeded in making Iran's nuclear program a protected transaction , that may not respon...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Job search in Japan

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The Chronicle of Higher Education reports: In Bleak Economy, Japanese Students Grow Frustrated With Endless Job Hunt (subscription required...
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The market for lawyers, a modest proposal

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Ashish Nanda at the Harvard Law School has a modest proposal for how the jobmarket for new associates at large law firms should be organized...
Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Jerusalem summer school in economic theory

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The 21st Jerusalem Summer School in Economic Theory will be on market design writ large, namely Political Economy , from June 25-July 6, wit...

The market for history professors

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Robert Townsend of the American Historical Association reports on A Grim Year on the Academic Job Market for Historians . "The number o...
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Monday, February 8, 2010

Sex ratio and competition, in China and American colleges

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With more than 120 boys born for every 100 girls in China, parents of boys know that their sons will face a competitive marriage market. Sha...
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Sunday, February 7, 2010

An unexpectedly repugnant transaction: singing "My Way" in the Philippines

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A NY Times story on karaoke in the Philippines is full of interesting and unexpected detail: Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord "...
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RepoMen (the movie)

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Joshua Gans points me to the trailer for the upcoming movie RepoMen . It touches on both repugnance and organ transplantation: Synopsis In t...

Australia to Lift Ban on Xenotransplants

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Australia to Lift Ban on Animal Transplants "Australia will join some 14 other countries -- including Japan, New Zealand and the United...
Saturday, February 6, 2010

Unraveling in college football

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We're used to hearing of career decisions by very young basketball players, but there's been a tradition in football of waiting unti...

Ingredient lists, and farmed fish

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Consumer protection laws work in strange ways, but one thing they do fairly well is to require that ingredients be listed on processed food....
Friday, February 5, 2010

Market Design conference at the NBER, October 8-9 2010

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Susan Athey and Parag Pathak have circulated the following email. The National Bureau of Economic Research workshop on Market Design is a fo...

Would Professor Moriarty have invented an eBay, a Paypal or a Craigslist?

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Professor Moriarty was, of course, Sherlock Holmes' nemesis (or was it the other way around)? I ask the question in the title of this po...
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Thursday, February 4, 2010

Mentoring (and a pet peeve: maybe women should be athena-ed?)

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There are lots of reasons to think that young employees of many kinds may benefit from mentoring , and, because networks of various sorts ma...
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The fertility biz: too many hazardous twins?

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The NY Times reports on the complicated incentives in the fertility business that often lead to the birth of twins, despite the increased ha...
Wednesday, February 3, 2010

A famous experiment in game theory

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In an earlier post I wrote about Nagel's guessing/beauty contest game: a famous experiment in game theory . Who knew how famous. Here...

Law clerks at the Supreme Court

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Some guest Volokh Conspirators have an interesting post on the history of law clerks at the Supreme Court: Disenclerking the Supreme Court ....
Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Kant on compensation for organ donors

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The Jerusalem Post has a column making the case for compensation of organ donors: Recompense for organ donors. It begins with the following ...
Monday, February 1, 2010

Finance as portrayed in Victorian novels

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I think of my work on repugnance , and on protected transactions , as part of a broader project of understanding how the workings of the eco...
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Sunday, January 31, 2010

A LEAP forward at Harvard

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Here is an email announcement I received today from my colleague Raj Chetty: I am writing to introduce the Lab for Economic Applications and...

Where repugnant transactions motivate 'honor crimes'

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No More Honor Killings writes Melik Kaylan in Forbes (1/29/10), in a column suggesting the practice may date to pre-Islamic Arab culture. Jo...

Corporate funding of research

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Joshua Gans writes (following a John Tierny column) about a new category of transaction in danger of being regarded as repugnant, corporate ...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

College football and the BCS as a political football

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The WSJ reports today: U.S. May Examine College Footbal Bowl System "Sen. Orrin Hatch (R.-Utah) said he received a letter from the Just...

iPhone app for finding broken parking meters

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Application identifies broken meters so that drivers can park at them without paying . The app, called NYC Broken Meters, "allows users...

misc kidney exchange news stories, videos

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VIDEO: Woman Part Of Kidney Exchange Benefiting 10 People - Video ... Twenty people in four states will have surgeries, giving 10 people a c...
Friday, January 29, 2010

Moving towards kidney exchange on a national scale in the U.S.

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There are lots of good reasons to move towards kidney exchange on a national scale (the main ones being the benefits of a thick market). On...
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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Dogs and cats becoming repugnant as food in China?

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The Guardian reports Chinese legal experts call for ban on eating cats and dogs . "Chinese legal experts are proposing a ban on eating ...

Surrogacy

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The NY Times has a forum on The Baby Market : "The Times recently published an article on the ethical and legal issues surrounding the...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

The Australian paired Kidney eXchange (AKX) goes live

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"The Australian paired Kidney eXchange Program (AKX) is a nationwide live kidney donor exchange program which will become operational i...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

School choice in SF moves forward

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Yesterday Muriel Niederle and Clayton Featherstone were among the presenters to the San Francisco Board of Education, speaking about possibl...
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