Friday, June 30, 2017

Insurance for organ donors in Ireland: is it compensation?

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Frank McCormick points out this interesting story from Ireland: If you're donating an organ, you can now get insurance cover The new...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

EC17: the ACM conference on Economics and Computation

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EC is now a long-running computer science conference (underway right now at MIT). I think the initials initially stood for Electronic Comme...

New papers on economic design: listing service

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Alex Teytelboym writes: Dear Al,  I'm now editing the weekly NEP mailing list on economic design. You can subscribe here:  http...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Science publishing and (versus?) science

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The Guardian has an interesting history of modern science publishing, focusing on the growth of Elsevier. Is the staggeringly profitable ...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Dr. Vanessa Grubbs on racial disparities in deceased kidney allocation

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NPR has an interview with Dr Vanessa Grubbs, about her new book, on racial disparities in organ allocation, and on her experience as a livi...
Monday, June 26, 2017

Overturning old convictions (for being gay) in Germany

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Here's the story from the Guardian (in the "better late than never" category): Germany to quash convictions of 50,000 gay me...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

London crossing signs and diversity in marriages

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Walking from HM Treasury to LSE, a quarter turn around Trafalger Square shows that British traffic wardens have a relaxed view of moder...
Saturday, June 24, 2017

Could commercial surrogacy become legal in Denmark?

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It doesn't sound like change in Danish surrogacy law is imminent, but it's under discussion. The Copenhagen Post has the story: ...
Friday, June 23, 2017

Kidney transplant in June 1950

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I'm accustomed to calling Murray's 1954 surgery the first successful kidney transplant, and indeed the first successful organ trans...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Ben Edelman calls out Uber

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Ben has been following Uber for some time, and he's calling them out for their law-breaking business model: Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It...