Sunday, November 10, 2019

Rank order voting in NY (and in xkcd)

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Vox has the story: New York City adopts ranked-choice voting, a major milestone for the reform The biggest city in the US is joining a vo...
Saturday, November 9, 2019

Lifetime medical insurance for kidney donors?

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Reason has the story: New York Might Compensate You for Your Kidney But it's just health insurance, not cash LIZ WOLFE  11.6.2019 ...

von Neumann award to Susan Athey

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Susan Athey is the recipient of the 2019 John von Neumann Award. " The  John von Neumann Award , named after  John von Neumann  is g...
Friday, November 8, 2019

Nobel Prize Dialogue Berlin 2019 Towards Health: Equality, Responsibility and Research, Friday Nov. 8

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I'll be speaking in Berlin again today: Below is one announcement, with the agenda (and a list of speakers and panelists is here ): ...
Thursday, November 7, 2019

Controversial markets, at Humboldt University

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This evening I'll be speaking at Humboldt University: BSE Lecture on "Controversial markets" by Nobel Laureate Alvin E....
Wednesday, November 6, 2019

MIT celebrates Nikhil Agarwal

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Optimizing kidney donation and other markets without money MIT economist Nikhil Agarwal analyzes the efficiency of markets that match sup...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Unraveling and (lack of) self confidence by Dargnies, Hakimov and Kübler

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Online, in Management Science, a behavioral look at unraveling via early exploding offers: Self-Confidence and Unraveling in Matching Mar...
Monday, November 4, 2019

Kidney donation in Israel

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In Israel, as in the U.S., a lot of living kidney donations to strangers come from people associated with faith based organizations.  Table...
Sunday, November 3, 2019

Egon Balas, 1922-2019

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I only now learned that Egon Balas passed away in March, at the age of 96.   I last saw him in 2017, full of energy at an IFORS conference...
Saturday, November 2, 2019

Video Interview: Peter Singer on Global Kidney Exchange

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Peter Singer discusses Global Kidney Exchange, and his recent article in the Lancet, in this interview on the Practical Ethics blog at Oxf...
Friday, November 1, 2019

No more foie gras in New York City

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The NY Times has the story: Foie Gras, Served in 1,000 Restaurants in New York City, Is Banned Animal cruelty concerns led the City Coun...
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...