Market Design

I post market design related news and items about repugnant markets. See my Stanford profile. I have a forthcoming book : Moral Economics The subtitle is "From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work."

Monday, November 6, 2017

The American market for machine guns

Here's an extensive excerpt from a long article on thefirearmblog.com on the (complicated) legal status of machine gun sales in the U.S...

Sunday, November 5, 2017

The market for hunting exotic animals without traveling to exotic places

The NY Times has a story about the Ox Ranch , which describes itself as offering "18,000 acres of the best Texas Hill Country Hunting...

Saturday, November 4, 2017

Market design in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, edited by Kominers, Teytelboym and Crawford

Market Design ARTICLES An invitation to market design Scott Duke Kominers ; Alexander Teytelboym ; Vincent P Crawford...

Friday, November 3, 2017

Payday lending and check cashing

In the WSJ: The Hand-to-Hand Combat to Save Payday Lending Payday lenders and consumer advocates fuel letter-writing campaigns ahead of ...

Thursday, November 2, 2017

Turkey to toughen laws on surrogacy, which contains "elements of adultery."

Turkey to toughen laws on surrogacy The URL is more graphic than the headline: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/09/turkey-t...

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Callisto: Designing a reporting system for sexual assault

Callisto is an interesting website designed to reduce the under-reporting of sexual assault, and make it easier to identify serial predat...

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