Sunday, June 28, 2015

Elias, Lacetera and Macis on the repugnance of paying for organs or prostitution: a survey experiment

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Markets and Morals: An Experimental Survey Study Julio J. Elias , Nicola Lacetera , Mario Macis PLOS One. Published: June 1, 2015DOI: 1...
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Saturday, June 27, 2015

Ransom as a repugnant transaction--the U.S. relaxes its position

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The U.S. is revisiting laws and policies against paying ransom to pirates, terrorists and other hostage takers. In New Hostage Policy, U....
Friday, June 26, 2015

An ancient repugnance crumbles: Same sex marriage is a right, in all 50 of the United States

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Here's the NY Times headline: Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules, 5-4 "Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote the major...

School choice in Amsterdam goes to court over tie-breaking

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Hessel Oosterbeek sends me this article in Dutch about the very current controversy playing out in Amsterdam over this year's school c...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

Unravelling of magnet school enrollment in Cincinnati: 16 days in a tent

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Here's a story about a devoted dad in Cincinnati who slept outside of a school for 16 days, along with many other parents, to preserve ...

Peter Passell interviews me at the Milken Institute on Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design

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I had a busy day in Los Angeles Tuesday, which combined some academic meetings with some media events related to my new book . Here's...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

The repugnance of paying for your raw materials: journalists and news stories

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The New York Times has an op-ed by Kelly McBride (described as a "media ethicist"):  When It’s O.K. to Pay for a Story "JO...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Talking about markets on Think Radio, and Radio New Zealand

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Here's an NPR radio show, in which I was interviewed about Who Gets What and Why Most economists study commodity markets, in which b...
Monday, June 22, 2015

Book talk video "Who Gets What and Why" at Noblis

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Here's a video of a talk I gave last week when I was in the DC area, about my new book Who Gets What and Why , at Noblis. It's ab...
Sunday, June 21, 2015

Who Gets What and Why at the Milken Institute in Santa Monica, June 23

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This should be fun--I'll be interviewed Tuesday by Peter Passell, whose columns I used to read in the NY Times, about my  new book    ....
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Conference in honor of Sergiu Hart, June 21-24 in Jerusalem

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Happy birthday Sergiu! The conference website is here:  http://www.ratio.huji.ac.il/conference_Hart  
Friday, June 19, 2015

Two interviews by the Minneapolis Fed with two Stanford economists: me -- and Raj Chetty

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The Minneapolis Fed publishes a magazine called The Region that features long interviews with economists, accompanied by nice photos. Thei...

Maine hospital goes through with kidney donation despite donor raising funds online

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Long story short: woman in need of kidney posts a sign on a car, seen by a stranger who agrees to donate and is compatible. Then he uses so...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

Abraham Neyman's talk on Stochastic Games at the Conference in His Honor

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I'm acutely aware that I'm missing two important conferences in Jerusalem during these days, in honor of Abraham Neyman, and Sergiu...

NPR's Marketplace: Ryssdal interviews Dubner about his newest Freakonomics podcast--the four minute version

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An algorithm that matches kidney patients and donors The link above will take you to the four-minute version of the fifty minute Freako...