Monday, July 16, 2018

New calls for decriminalizing drug use in Canada

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Here's the story in the Washington Post: Toronto medical official calls for decriminalizing drugs as opioid overdoses skyrocket in C...
Sunday, July 15, 2018

Kidney exchange is fragmented in the U.S.

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Market Failure in Kidney Exchange Nikhil Agarwal ,  Itai Ashlagi ,  Eduardo Azevedo ,  Clayton R. Featherstone ,  Ömer Karaduman NBER...
Saturday, July 14, 2018

Jason Furman buys books when they're on sale

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Here's a recent book review of my (2015) book that caught my eye, posted by Ismail Ali Manik, which begins with this tweet: I finall...
Friday, July 13, 2018

One kidney donor's journey

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I recently heard the following story, by email from a recent kidney donor, who has given me permission to share it. It's lightly edited...
Thursday, July 12, 2018

A television interview on kidney exchange in Mexico (video)

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Here's a short video that ran on Mexican tv, with a one minute introduction in Spanish, and then 11 minutes in English with Spanish sub...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018

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The June issue of the newsletter of the ACM E-commerce group is devoted to market design. You can read them at the links below: June,...
Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Capitalisn't conversation on kidneys and repugnance with Luigi Zingales and Kate Waldock

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Here's a podcast and transcript of a conversation I had recently  with Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales on the Chicago Booth Capitalisn...
Monday, July 9, 2018

Explaining plasma donation

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In recent posts I've commented on the repugnance (in Canada and elsewhere) to paid plasma donation, which is legal in the U.S.. (The U....
Sunday, July 8, 2018

Chen Yusun Memorial Lecture at Tsinghua. 陈岱孙纪念讲座

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Monday, at Tsinghua University I'll have the honor of delivering the Chen Daisun Memorial Lecture,  陈岱孙纪念讲座 From Google translate...
Saturday, July 7, 2018

Tsinghua Conference on Behavioral, Experimental and Theoretical Economics (BEAT), July 9-10

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Tsinghua Conference on Behavioral, Experimental and Theoretical Economics ( Tsinghua BEAT 2018 ) July 9-10, 2018 Keynote speaker...
Friday, July 6, 2018

Market design comes to Harvard Law School

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Here's a piece from the Harvard Law Bulletin that caught my eye: Holger Spamann brings new thinking to the structure of his class and ...
Thursday, July 5, 2018

Is altruism necessarily good?

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That's basically the question asked, in the context of organ donation, by this paper in the BMJ: Law, ethics and medicine Paper How...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Compensation for kidney donors debated in WSJ

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Familiar positions, clearly stated, pro and con compensation for donors. There are other reasons put forward for not rewarding organ donat...
Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Obstacles to kidney exchange in Germany

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An op-ed in yesterday's Handelsblatt Global (in English) proposes that kidney exchange should be allowed in Germany: Germany should al...
Monday, July 2, 2018

Kidney exchange in all its aspects: a view from India

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Here's a survey that sees kidney exchange, and all the advances that have been made in how to use it to facilitate more transplants, as...