Monday, August 16, 2010

The (changing) market for law professors

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The New Realities of the Legal Academy by Lawrence B. Solum  "Abstract: This short paper is the Foreword to Brannon P. Denning, Marc...
Sunday, August 15, 2010

Matching services for friends?

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Robin Hanson asks " Why Not Friend Match? " I.e. why are there dating sites but not friend sites? That isn't to say that the...
Saturday, August 14, 2010

The international market for ironing boards

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The Washington Post reports Indiana ironing-board factory faces stiff competition from Chinese companies . "There is one factory left i...
Friday, August 13, 2010

Another live liver donation tragedy

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Live liver donation remains much more dangerous than kidney donation: Donor dies after live liver transplant at CU Hospital AURORA, Colo....
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Suicide and organ donation

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Assisted suicide is one of the persistently repugnant transactions, although it is the subject of a good deal of modern debate around the ...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

The market for celebrity endorsements

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The story under this eye-catching headline sheds some light on the endorsement biz:  Paris Hilton Sued for $35M for Wearing Wrong Hair ...
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Language exchanges

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Learning a Language From an Expert, on the Web  reports on various communities of language learners who help each other out. "Livemoch...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Education as a filter--for Supreme Court justices

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Yale, Harvard Law Taking Over Supreme Court " In a new paper , Patrick J. Glen, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Cen...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Marriage, jobs, and immigration

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A recent NBER paper relates two things whose interaction has fascinated me for some time (the marriage and job markets) with a third, immigr...
Monday, August 9, 2010

Brokers for pirate ransom

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Suppose your ship were hijacked by Somali pirates, and you wanted to ransom it and the crew. How would you go about it?  You would need a mi...
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Sunday, August 8, 2010

New Orleans Receivables Exchange

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In several earlier posts I've been following the progress of the New Orleans Receivables Exchange . The State of Louisiana has now pa...
Saturday, August 7, 2010

Korean marriage brokers for foreign brides

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After a tragedy involving the death of a young woman, SKorea Cracks Down on Marriage Brokers . "...Her death in early July has drawn...
Friday, August 6, 2010

Organ donation registration on income tax forms

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Organ donation checkoff proposed for tax forms "LANSING, Mich. - Michigan's secretary of state wants to make organ donation easie...
Thursday, August 5, 2010

The market for electricity

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As the supply of electricity changes in response to growing numbers of wind turbines, there's more need to be able to store electricity:...
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

School choice in Darebin City, Victoria, Australia

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It sounds like at least one school district in Australia has less bureaucracy than my colleagues and I have encountered in helping American ...

WHO: blood donation insufficient in developing countries

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The World Health Organization reports "65% of all blood donations are made in developed countries, home to just 25% of the world's...
Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Kidney Exchange in South Korea

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S. Korea was a pioneer in kidney exchange . (In the U.S. population, Asians have the highest frequency of blood type B, almost equal to the...
Monday, August 2, 2010

More market design in Hebrew

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Forbes has an Israeli edition, and here is a Hebrew translation of the article that ran in English here . (Here's a different market ...

Repugnance and/or disgust

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I like to distinguish what I've called repugnant transactions from those that elicit disgust . By repugnant transactions I mean transact...
Sunday, August 1, 2010

The market for once-used wedding dresses

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For Sale: One White Dress, Yet to Be Worn "AS more brides try to sell their used wedding dresses online, some have found a way to sta...
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