Friday, January 20, 2023

Repugnant and deleted blog posts: AI and the Justice Stewart test

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  As someone who sometimes writes and speaks about repugnant transactions and controversial markets , I'm aware that people may object n...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

NPR on black markets for kidneys from Nepal, for India

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Here's an 8-minute video from National Public Radio about the black market for kidneys, trafficked from Nepal to India.  Some of the peo...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Collective bargaining by medical residents

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  The WSJ has the story: Medical Residents Unionize Over Pay, Working Conditions . Doctors-in-training say they want to advocate for themsel...
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Organ trafficking in America, on National Geographic TV, premiering tomorrow

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National Geographic TV tweets about a new series on organ trafficking, premiering tomorrow night, with a video trailer that suggests that th...
Monday, January 16, 2023

School choice, by Atila Abdulkadiroğlu and Tommy Andersson

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  Here's what looks to be a magisterial survey of school choice by two pioneers of the theory and practice of market design. School choi...
Sunday, January 15, 2023

Predicting the future in Japan: Kojima, Narita, Saito and Uchida

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A new book in Japanese has appeared, whose translated title is " Future Prediction of Geniuses ." My attempt to post about it caus...
Saturday, January 14, 2023

The power of kidneys, altruism, and books. (And recommendation of a doctor in the UK)

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 Here's a story, about kidneys and about books, in inews.co.uk: ‘It’s a gift with no conditions attached’: Why I donated my kidney to a ...
Friday, January 13, 2023

Affirmative action in India--a market design perspective, by Ashutosh Thakur, Orhan Aygün, Bertan Turhan, and M. Bumin Yenmez

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  The policy portal Ideas for India has an e-symposium on recent developments in affirmative action in India, with an informative introduct...
Thursday, January 12, 2023

Surrogacy around the world and across international boundaries

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Here's a wide ranging survey of the literature on surrogacy practice around the world. Brandão, Pedro, and Nicolás Garrido. " Comme...
Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Kidney Transplantation Across International Boundaries

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  When global kidney exchange was first proposed it met with some hysterical reactions, equating it to organ trafficking.  It is good to see...
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Cross-border transplantation between China and Hong Kong

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 Here are two recent reports of the first cross-border transplant between China proper and Hong Kong. From the Global Times: First organ don...
Monday, January 9, 2023

Non-compete clauses are anti-competitive: Lina Kahn (FTC chair) in the NYT

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  An op-ed this morning by the chair of the FTC explains her opposition to non-compete clauses in labor contracts (which are already non-enf...
Sunday, January 8, 2023

Moral certainties versus moral tradeoffs

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  An article and a commentary in PNAS raise the possibility that  economists and psychologists and moral philosophers concerned with morally...
Saturday, January 7, 2023

It's hard to enforce the ban on cannabis in Kansas

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  Just as markets need social support, bans on markets need social support.  Even in Kansas, apparently, where marijuana remains completely ...
Friday, January 6, 2023

Nicotine will be with us for a long time--survey of middle school use

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 Sales of tobacco products to minors are generally illegal in the U.S., but a survey shows that doesn't stop children from smoking and v...
Thursday, January 5, 2023

Sell a kidney to save a life? by Dylan Walsh, in WIRED.

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  Martha Gershun alerts me to this story which appeared this morning in WIRED, in which the author, a kidney transplant recipient (24 years...
Wednesday, January 4, 2023

"It Is Time for Interventional Cardiology Fellowship to Join the National Resident Matching Program," say its leaders

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  The current appointment process for interventional cardiology fellows is early and congested, and programs feel obliged to make exploding ...
Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Residency interviews, in person vs by zoom, at Stanford

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  Residency interviews in the digital era by Isabel Beshar1, William J Tate2, Dan Bernstein3  Postgraduate Medical Journal 98, no. 1166 (20...
Monday, January 2, 2023

Synthetic biology and the ethics of eating (Virgina Postrel in the WSJ)

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  Remarkable changes will keep coming.  Here's Virginia Postrel in the WSJ on how changes in the food supply might influence both repugn...
Sunday, January 1, 2023

New York State's Living Donor Support Act (LDSA, S. 1594) was signed by Governor Hochul on Dec. 29

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 Frank McCormick forwards this email: From: Elaine Perlman Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2022 5:44 PM Subject: Governor Hochul Has Signed ...