Saturday, July 22, 2017

Epilepsy and Neurophysiology fellowships are unravelled

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Here is an article calling for a match. The opening paragraphs describe the current, unraveled recruiting process. The Case for an Ep...
Friday, July 21, 2017

Usury and theology

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At Aeon, Alex Mayyasi writes about the work of banker turned theologian David Miller: Of money and morals Moneylending has been taboo fo...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

THE 28TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GAME THEORY; IN HONOR OF PRADEEP DUBEY AND YAIR TAUMAN

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The celebration of Pradeep Dubey and Yair Tauman is going on now. Here's the program .

Declining racial disparities in deceased-donor kidney allocation

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Here's an article from the June issue of Health Affairs, reporting that racial disparities among deceased-donor kidney recipients seem ...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Blackmail has something in common with transactions that become repugnant when money is added

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Blackmail isn't what I usually mean when I speak of a repugnant transaction, because it isn't a voluntary transaction that third pa...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Supervised drug injection sites--Harm reduction

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One of the problems with intravenous drug addition is that addicts can overdose and die. A number of North American cities are trying to co...
Monday, July 17, 2017

21st conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS): July 17-21 2017 in Quebec City

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Here's the IFORS conference web page . "Welcome to ... the 21st Conference of the International Federation of Operational Resear...
Sunday, July 16, 2017

How (not) to measure school choice

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Here's a post I just looked at from The National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Teachers College at Columbia (po...
Saturday, July 15, 2017

Who Gets What and Why in French: Les marchés où l'argent ne fait pas la loi

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The French translation of my book Who Gets What and Why has recently become available... Les marchés où l'argent ne fait pas la ...
Friday, July 14, 2017

Global Kidney Exchange at Mexico's Museo Interactive de Economia

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Ivan Carillo's reporting on global kidney exchange will be featured today at Mexico's Museo Interactivo de Economía * The Thirs...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

John J. Carty Award: NAS prize in Economics for 2018

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The National Academy of Sciences John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science is to be awarded for work in Economics. Get you nomi...

House Panel Lifts Ban on Slaughtering Horses for Meat (December update: false alarm...)

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Hot news off the AP wire on one of my favorite examples of a US-centric repugnant transaction. Here it is from the NY Times: House Panel ...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

The costs of heroism: Some hidden expenses that come with donating a kidney

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Here's a Chicago Tribune column on the shabby way we treat organ donors, who assume nontrivial expenses to save someone's life. (Up...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Film on Global Kidney Exchange

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Here's a video documentary by Ivan Carillo on the Global Kidney exchange in which the Mexican poet Marisol Robles received a kidney tr...
Monday, July 10, 2017

Economics and computer science of a radio spectrum reallocation in the PNAS

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A PNAS article on the recent incentive auction, by its design team. Economics and computer science of a radio spectrum reallocation Kevi...
Sunday, July 9, 2017

Bob Slonim of Australia

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Here's an announcement from down under, where Bob Slonim  will be heading the Australian Federal government's Behavioural Economi...
Saturday, July 8, 2017

Kidney exchange job opportunity in Australia

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If you're a transplant professional following this blog from Australia, maybe this could be of interest: Australian Kidney Exchange ...
Friday, July 7, 2017

NAS report on The Value of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences to National Priorities

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As Congress continues to debate funding for science, here's a new report from the National Academies of Science:  The Value of Social, ...
Thursday, July 6, 2017

Supporting science during the budget process: an op-ed in the St. Louis Post Dispatch

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Here's an op-ed that ran this week in the St. Louis Post Dispatch: Federally funded research helps connect transplant patients with d...
Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Eduardo Azevedo on "Market failure in kidney exchange" at Penn today

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If I were at Penn today I'd attend this seminar by Eduardo Azevedo: Wed, July 5, 12:00pm – 1:30pm Where G65 JMHH Cal...
Tuesday, July 4, 2017

California's End of Life Option Act: the first six months

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Independence of a sort. California's End of Life Option Act  (aka medically assisted suicide; death with dignity, right to die)  has n...
Monday, July 3, 2017

Cadavers and the teaching of anatomy

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Hektoen International, A journal of medical humanities has several articles motivated by Rembrandt's painting of The Anatomy Lesson of ...
Sunday, July 2, 2017

The (criminal) repugnance of even child-free child pornography

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Sex with children is so abhorrent that a lot of things that look like sex with children are also illegal.   Here's a story from the Gua...
Saturday, July 1, 2017

Postcard from the Nobel museum--treadmill desk and artistic license

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 I just received a postcard from a friend who had visited the Nobel Museum in Stockholm. It is an artist's rendering of me on a tread...
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