Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Bob Wilson, Paul Milgrom and Dave Kreps on the future (and past) of Economics

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An interview at Stanford GSB with three of the greatest game theorists. You can read it at this link: The Future of Economics Three award...
Monday, April 2, 2018

Dutch marijuana: where a legal market must purchase from an illegal black market

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 The Dutch (legal) market for marijuana seems as confused as the legal American markets in (now) 30 states, but in different ways. The NY ...
Sunday, April 1, 2018

Headlines that could have been dated April 1

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A woman tried to board a plane with her emotional-support peacock. United wouldn't let it fly. Hundreds of Canadian doctors demand l...
Saturday, March 31, 2018

Science in society at the Exploratorium (video of a panel discussion)

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In late February I took part in a panel discussion about Science in Society, at the Exploratorium. Below is a photo, and the video of the ...
Friday, March 30, 2018

Kidney dialysis on the California Ballot?

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An Orange County Register op-ed discusses a likely referendum to control dialysis costs, and some better proposals... How to help the 18,...
Thursday, March 29, 2018

Early admissions to competitive colleges

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The WSJ updates us on early admissions (they continue to be a big deal):   The Decision That Hurts Your Chances of Getting Into Harvard D...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

An anthropologist (Dr. Elham Mireshghi) looks at the market for kidneys in Iran

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Elham Mireshghi completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology at UC Irvine in 2016. Her dissertation is Kidneys on Sale? An Ethnography of Policy,...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

French university admissions

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The World View has a story on what I take to be ongoing attempts to reform university admissions in France in response to sometimes conflic...
Monday, March 26, 2018

Surrogacy becomes legal in the state of Washington

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Above the Law has the story: Washington State Flips Its Anti-Surrogacy Stance "Following the trend of jurisdictions named after our...
Sunday, March 25, 2018

The demand for blue eyed babies (from American sperm donors) in Brazil

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The WSJ has the story: Demand for American Sperm Is Skyrocketing in Brazil Explosive growth spurred by more wealthy single women and lesb...
Saturday, March 24, 2018

The NCAA cartel

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The March 2018 issue of the Review of Industrial Organization is devoted to a  Symposium: The NCAA Cartel In the Introduction, Roger Blai...
Friday, March 23, 2018

Organ donation in Singapore: mandated choice?

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Here's a commentary on deceased organ donation controversies in Singapore: Mandated Consent – Not a Viable Solution for Organ Transpl...
Thursday, March 22, 2018

The next radio spectrum frontier?

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The allocation and reallocation of radio spectrum for modern uses has reorganized how spectrum is used.  But the growth of mobile computing...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Kidney donor/sellers in Iran face social stigma--2 papers

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The first of these two recently published papers is a report compiling interviews taken some time ago: Coercion, dissatisfaction, and soc...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Bar Ifrach on market design at Airbnb

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Here's a talk today at the Harvard Kennedy School that caught my eye: Bar Ifrach (Director of Data Science, Airbnb): 'Search, Pr...
Monday, March 19, 2018

Market design and kidney exchange: Public lecture at USC

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I'll be speaking at USC today: March 19 Al Roth Stanford  *IEPR Distinguished Lecture Series Location: University Club, Scriptoriu...