Saturday, January 22, 2011

Colbert on school choice in Wake County

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Stephen Colbert explains the logic behind returning to a system of local schools (video, funny). HT: Tim Gray
Friday, January 21, 2011

Jobs in kidney exchange

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Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio is advertising for a Vice President, Transplant Services In their ad they highl...

Homophobia: gay sex remains a repugnant transaction for many

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If a repugnant transaction is one that some people want to engage in and others don't want them to, then sex is surely the most ancient...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

European carbon markets suspended

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The suspension of trading on European carbon emissions markets has been covered fairly widely, with the most interesting (and critical) stor...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Kidney chains in India, and a millionaire nondirected donor

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Kidney chains are coming to India, and one of the first (maybe the first) non-directed donors is a millionaire businessman: Kidney donation ...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Barter in a recession

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In a Tight Holiday Season, Some Turn to Barter "The proliferation of Web sites with names like  Swap.com  and  SwapMamas  have moved ...
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Monday, January 17, 2011

Greg Lewis' market design course at Harvard

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My colleague Greg Lewis will be teaching a market design course this semester, and sends this email: "I just wanted to advertise th...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

Organ donation in Tucson tragedy

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9-year-old shooting victim's organs help save child "Christina-Taylor Green, the 9-year-old girl killed in Saturday's shootin...
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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Economics job market in Europe

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The big marketplace for new Ph.D. economists is the one that takes place in North America each year in early January (see this recent paper ...
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Tribal customs of academic disciplines

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Some of the different ways that different academic disciplines organize their scholarship, and the signals they send about it, are discussed...
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Friday, January 14, 2011

In France, civil unions aren't just for same sex couples

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A pacte civil de solidarité in France is a civil union, something like a civil marriage, originally intended to help same-sex couples forma...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Pictures from a matching conference (and a new matching paper)

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I returned from Milan to the following cheerful message from Atila Abdulkadiroglu : Dear all, I hope you have had a cheerful holiday sea...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Specialized dating sites for the disabled

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Searching for a mate is hard work, and it can be hard to find a match if you have special needs. So there's a demand for specialized dat...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Tips, Tip Pooling, and Tip Credits

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Restaurant wait-staff in the United States make a significant part of their incomes in tips left by satisfied or habit-driven or social-norm...
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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Wikipedia fundraising, randomized experiments

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You know those fundraising appeals that appear at the top of Wikipedia pages? They are randomized so that reliable information can be collec...

Game theory for college teachers at the AEA continuing education program

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Preliminary reading list for an introduction to Game Theory at the AEA Continuing Education Program January 2011 taught by Avinash Dixit a...
Friday, January 7, 2011

Slavery in the U.S.

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At the conference I'm attending in Finland, there's been a good deal of discussion (with more to come) of repugnant transactions, wi...
Thursday, January 6, 2011

Markets, broadly defined

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I'm in Helsinki, participating in the second workshop of the Markets & Marketization program, that will bring together philosophers...
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Blasphemy law in Pakistan

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One of the oldest repugnant transactions, different worship, is as repugnant as ever in Pakistan: Pakistanis Rally in Support of Blasphemy L...
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More on the debate over kidney sales: transcript of interview

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In my earlier post, Dubner interviews me about kidney sales , I promised to link to a transcript when it became available, and now it has: t...
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