Saturday, March 19, 2011

Experimental economics and philosophy in the Basque country

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XIV Summer School on Economics and Philosophy (2011), Experiments in Economics, Experiments in Philosophy Since 1998 the Urrutia Elejalde...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Market for adultery revisited

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Cheating, Incorporated At Ashley Madison's website for "dating," the infidelity economy is alive, well, and profitable By Shee...
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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Debate on kidney allocation in NEJM

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The attack is by Benjamin E. Hippen, M.D., J. Richard Thistlethwaite, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., and Lainie Friedman Ross, M.D., Ph.D., (some of whos...

Organ donation from death row?

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A thought provoking op-ed in the NY Times --  Giving Life After Death Row , By CHRISTIAN LONGO His circumstances give him time to think, a...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

How not to assign kidneys

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"That's the title of a NY Times Op-Ed by LAINIE FRIEDMAN ROSS and BENJAMIN E. HIPPEN, criticizing the recent UNOS proposals to ch...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Dating fees added to the British inflation index

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Along with apps, natch. The Financial Times reports, Apps and dating fees added to inflation basket "Smartphones and the applications...

“Summa cum fraude:” Plagiarism as a (culturally dependent) repugnant transaction

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The NY Times discusses the recent resignation of the German defense minister after it was revealed that parts of his Ph.D. dissertation were...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Academic letters of reference

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At the Chronicle of Higher Ed, David Roediger writes of The Failed Promise of Electronic Applications "It would have been easy enough...
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Sunday, March 13, 2011

Adoption as a (less) repugnant transaction

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You wouldn't think that adoption would sometimes be regarded as a repugnant transaction, i.e. as something that some people didn't...
Saturday, March 12, 2011

Twelve international criminal markets

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I'm not confident of the data, but numbers one and two are drugs and human trafficking, and number five is human organs. This from Tran...
Friday, March 11, 2011

Unraveling in the war for new private equity talent

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Kevin Roose at Dealbook writes of A Grab for Wall Street’s Rising Stars Before They’ve Risen "Some of the world’s largest private equ...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

More on random graph models of kidney exchange

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A new paper by Panos Toulis and David Parkes explores random graph models of kidney exchange: A Random Graph Model of Kidney Exchanges: Ef...
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Kidney exchange software

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Itai Ashlagi has made available some of the  kidney exchange software  (for both cycles and chains) that we used in two recent papers. He...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Medical progress in the last 200 years

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MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL AT 200 (the Legislature created Mass. General on Feb. 25, 1811, but it didn’t open to patients until a decad...
Monday, March 7, 2011

Non-simultaneous kidney chains are getting longer

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Mike Rees' revolution in non-simultaneous extended altruistic donor (NEAD) chains continues to grow in importance in kidney exchange . ...
Sunday, March 6, 2011

Marketplace for retired economists

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The AEA is attempting to make another part of the job market thick: it is linked from the main JOE page at   http://www.aeaweb.org/joe/ He...
Saturday, March 5, 2011

The state of economic theory

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Jeff Ely at Cheap Talk reviews the state of economic theory and lists four positive signs (among them a plug for market design): Theorists...
Friday, March 4, 2011

Matching conference at Northwestern

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A recent conference at Northwestern looked at matching and market design:  Matching: findings, flaws and future   February 18th 1.30-2.30...
Thursday, March 3, 2011

Microeconomics and Market Design at Yahoo!

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Microeconomics and Market Design    By   Michael Schwarz   and   David Reiley What are the effects of complexity in mechanism design?  P...
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

NPR On Point discusses kidney allocation proposals

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The On Point show at National Public Radio has a broadcast on the pros and cons of the recent proposal to change the allocation of deceased ...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

The special (Medicare) status of kidney disease

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Special Treatment — The Story of Medicare’s ESRD Entitlement NEJM, February 16, 2011, by Richard A. Rettig, Ph.D. " I n October 1972...