Thursday, October 31, 2019

Global Kidney Exchange in the Lancet, by Minerva, Savulescu and Singer

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Here's a clear-eyed account of Global Kidney Exchange, from three moral philosophers, forthcoming in The Lancet. You can read the whole...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

NCAA takes steps to allow college athletes to be compensated

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Here's the NY Times: N.C.A.A. Considers Loosening Rules for Athletes Seeking Outside Deals The governing body for college sports app...
Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Interviews in the Medical Physics residency match (too many, and what to do about it..)

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Medical physics has a residency match, and like other residency matches it is suffering from (apparently) too many interviews. Here's...
Monday, October 28, 2019

Organ and tissue procurement: back and forth between LA Times and OneLegacy

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Even in the era of social media, it remains difficult to conduct an argument with someone who buys ink by the truckload. The LA Times ran...
Sunday, October 27, 2019

Ed Green, 1948-2019

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Ran Shorrer at Penn State passes on the news that his colleague Ed Green died Saturday morning after a long fight with cancer. Ed and I wer...

Interview with Péter Biró on kidney exchange and related matters

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The interview touches on Peter's history, and on developments in kidney exchange. Az algoritmus, ami életeket ment - interjú Biró Pét...
Saturday, October 26, 2019

Auction results: Nobel medals of John Nash and Reinhard Selten

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The auction is over, and (unlike in some previous auctions) all of the items sold.  The highest profile items, namely the Nobel medals and ...
Friday, October 25, 2019

A substantial change in how transplant centers are regulated

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From the website of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons:  it appears (although the Final Rule is hard to parse) that reporting requ...
Thursday, October 24, 2019

Prostitution in Washington DC (sex, not politics)

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The NY Times has the story, on a bill being discussed that would legalize not only prostitution, but pimps and brothels. In Washington, a...
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Designing effective reputation systems, by Donaker, Kim, and Luca in HBR

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The Nov-Dec 2019 issue of the Harvard Business Review has an article offering some strategies for designing a reputation system that will h...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Same sex marriage, and abortion, to be legal in Northern Ireland

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The Guardian has the story: Northern Ireland to legalise abortion and same-sex marriage Equality campaigners were celebrating before the...
Monday, October 21, 2019

Exchange with the right of exclusion--Balbuzanov and Kotowski in Econometrica

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Interesting... Endowments, Exclusion, and Exchange Ivan Balbuzanov, Maciej H. Kotowski ECONOMETRICA: SEP 2019, VOLUME 87, ISSUE 5 Abs...
Sunday, October 20, 2019

Amazon as a safe market-space for Hasidic business-NYT

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The NY Times has the story about how Amazon is a good place to do business, if you don't like to leave home: How Amazon Has Transform...
Saturday, October 19, 2019

Auction of John Nash and Reinhard Selten Nobel medals and memorabilia at Christie's, Oct 25

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Great scholars pass away, and their estates need to put their affairs in order. The auction house Christie's has several lots for sale...
Friday, October 18, 2019

Will IVF become more widely legal in France?

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The Washington Post has the story: Why an IVF bill is the next fault line for the French republic   By Camille Robcis " Since 1994...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

NBER Market Design meeting, Cambridge, October 18-19

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Market Design Working Group Meeting Michael Ostrovsky and Parag A. Pathak, Organizers October 18-19, 2019 NBER Feldstein Conferenc...