Saturday, June 6, 2015

Collaborations that went sour: Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon

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A recent interview in The Telegraph sheds light on how a wonderful collaboration can be remembered with bitterness if one collaborator feel...
Friday, June 5, 2015

The Shi'a religious jurisprudence behind Iran's legal market for kidneys

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An anthropology graduate student named  Elham Mireshghi  is studying the market for kidneys in Iran, and includes in her study some interes...
Thursday, June 4, 2015

Short interviews about marketplaces, on The Street (video), MSNBC, and the Brian Leher show

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Here's a five minute interview from The Street **************** Here's the URL of another interview, to MSNBC, that I can...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Who Gets What--and Why at the Harvard Book Store, June 4

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Today I'm still visiting various NY media, but tomorrow I'll be back in my old haunts Thursday evening, talking about my new book ...
Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Who Gets What -- And Why at Roosevelt House, tomorrow, June 3

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My new book comes out today (you could buy it here ), and so I'm in NYC, doing some media events  this morning and a book talk tomorrow...
Monday, June 1, 2015

Two television segments about market design tomorrow (when Who Gets What and Why is published)

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I'm on my way to Manhattan to give moral support to my publisher tomorrow, which is publication day for  Who Gets What — and Why: The N...

The market for robotics talent

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The labor market for computer scientists is thriving. The collaboration between Uber and Carnegie Mellon University on driverless-car tec...

The dangers of designing markets for illegal goods: Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht--'Dread Pirate Roberts'-- Sentenced to Life in Prison

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Designing illegal markets (and shutting them down) is the story of the day, with stories about the late Silk Road, and it's successors....
Sunday, May 31, 2015

The market for influence

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The NY Times reports that former House Speaker Hastert made his money legally: After Speakership, Hastert Amassed His Millions Lobbying Fo...

Kellogg celebrates Ehud Kalai

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Life Is Full of Big Games By Kellogg Insight | Based on the insights of Ehud Kalai "From optimizing our daily commute to choosing ...
Saturday, May 30, 2015

Sylvia Nasar on John Nash in the Wash Po, and John Cassidy on Nash equilibrium in the New Yorker

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The Washington Post has an interview with Sylvia Nasar:  The author of ‘A Beautiful Mind’ on the life and death of John Nash Here's o...
Friday, May 29, 2015

Peter Cramton is a Chief Economist

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Peter Cramton puts on a new entrepreneurial market design hat, with Rivada Networks Rivada Networks Names Peter Cramton as Chief Econ...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

The auction of Lederman's Nobel medal goes into extended bidding

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The auction has a soft close, and as of 6:30 Pacific time,  The auction has entered into extended bidding. Please refresh your screen to se...

Judd Kessler interviewed about organ donor registration on NPR

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Shankar Vedantam interviews Judd Kessler about how to ask for registration as a deceased organ donor, on NPR's Morning Edition: Attem...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Leon Lederman's 1988 Nobel Physics medal up for auction--closing May 28

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Another Nobel medal up for auction--this could be the start of a trend ... Nobel Prize Awarded to Physicist Leon Lederman in 1988 -- Won f...