Entertainer Pat Boone, Football Hall of Fame quarterback Steve Young and actor Robert Hays of “Airplane” fame signed on as authors of a guest essay by US Blood Donors.org for Mississippi Today on “Kidney Chains.” #econsky #medicine #Mississippi marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/08/kidn...

Kidney exchange in Mississippi (endorsed by celebrities)

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We are hiring at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social for the @aeadata.bsky.social / LDI Lab for the fall. Help make social sciences more reproducible! If you are a @cornelluniversity.bsky.social student with the necessary qualifications, read about it here www.ilr.cornell.edu/labor-dynami... and apply!

LDI Replication Lab

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Here are some of the talks given in Brazil last week at the game theory conference in São Paulo. My talk was called "Controversial markets, black markets, and market design" and included updates on kidney exchange in Brazil. #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/08/cont...

Controversial markets, black markets, and market design (in Brazil)

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Public rhetoric and parliamentary maneuvering display opposite positions on IVF in an election year. #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/08/cong...

Here's a New Yorker cartoon about tenure... #academicsky www.newyorker.com/gallery/cart...

Controversial markets in the new bazaar #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...

The New Bazaar on Moral Economics

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The first stop for many people caught up in the US criminal justice system is a local jail. Many have healthcare issues involving eg mental illness and/or addiction. But jails don't view themselves as healthcare facilities. @marcellaalsan.bsky.social marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/08/heal...

I'm getting multiple signals that there's an appetite for productive change in the transplant community. #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/07/dela...

Delayed feedback on a controversial talk--and some positive signals of potential for change

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Voluntary donation of whole blood in the US has long provided adequate supply, but since Covid has sometimes come close to shortage, and now we have a second declared shortage. This contrasts with plasma, which includes supply from paid donors. #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/07/amer...

American Red Cross Declares Second-Ever National Blood Supply Crisis

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For the first time in Brazil, two transplant centers in different cities carried out a paired kidney donation. a donor from São Paulo traveled to Juiz de Fora while the donor from Minas Gerais went to São Paulo. #econsky #Brasil #medicine marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/07/mult...

Program for the Workshop on Game Theory and Economic Applications, São Paulo, July 26-August 2 #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/07/prog...

Program for the Workshop on Game Theory and Economic Applications, São Paulo, July 26-August 2

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My old friend, colleague and coauthor Marilda Sotomayor is presiding over a big game theory conference in São Paulo this coming week. #econsky #academicsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/07/4th-...

4th International Workshop on Game Theory and Economic Applications, São Paulo, July 26-August 2

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Silvia Console Battilana who partnered with Paul Milgrom to found the auction consulting firm Auctionomics, writes about markets for compute capacity as an aid to developing AI. #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/07/auct...

as the recently legalized kidney exchange in Germany is implemented, attention should be paid to controversies that have been addressed elsewhere, including about non-directed donors, and the governance and transparency of transplant decisions. #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/07/kidn...

surrogacy—in general it's hard to effectively ban something that is legal in other jurisdictions: someone could write a book about that. #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/07/surr...

A letter from Mayo Clinic transplant providers raises concerns about bad outcomes when some patient-donor pairs are separated (the donor donates before the intended recipient is matched to a donor), but the intended recipient is hard to match. #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/07/are-...

Are some children more gifted than others, and can they be identified in ways that aren't irreparably confounded with socioeconomic status? #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/07/exam...

I've written about the determination of death prior to deceased-donor organ donation, but it turns out that there are other hard cases. Submersion in icy water is one, hence the rule "they aren't dead till they're warm and dead." #medsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/07/decl...

A picture worth a thousand words. www.nytimes.com/athletic/561...

The remarkable story of Lionel Messi’s meeting with a baby Lamine Yamal

The man who took the viral photos of Messi meeting a baby Yamal explains how two Barcelona stars from different generations met in 2007

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“Make sure to wash those berries really well, and then to not eat them.”  Cartoon by Adam Douglas Thompson #food apple.news/AKkTNYwfsSpm...

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, July 16th — The New Yorker

Play Catalogues, our new daily game, and bring order to the chaos.

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After a multi-year struggle, France's Assemblée Nationale legalized medical aid in dying for some patients. France joins 11 other countries where people with severe illnesses can obtain a lethal substance on medical prescription #econsky #France marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/07/maid...

MAID in France

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I discussed healthcare with Drs Wendy Dean and Matt Ramsey, ranging from health care markets described in Moral Economics, to the experiments on trust in medicine conducted by Marcella Alsan And there's a transcript. #econsky #medsky #medicine marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/07/is-h...

General Montague names the benefits of soldiers studying at top universities, despite new government bans. the current administration's war on universities is misguided, while universities don't appreciate the benefits of soldier/scholars. #academicsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/07/harv...

futbol rules: xkcd.com/3268/

Offside

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“Bringing data to a gunfight: Economists Alvin Roth and Jennifer Doleac share the conviction that using a data-driven approach to answer moral questions is itself a matter of morality.” #econsky #academicsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/07/two-...

Two economists on the Behavioral Scientist’s Summer Book List 2026

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“UN chief Guterres appealed for controls on AI, as powerful AI chips shift to the battlefield, where “killer robots” are already the norm. The Secretary-General also insisted on greater accessibility for the billions of people unable to access the revolutionary tech. news.un.org/en/story/202...

From AI to ‘killer robots’: UN chief issues urgent governance call

UN chief António Guterres appealed on Monday for far-reaching, worldwide controls on Artificial Intelligence, as increasingly powerful AI chips that are designed for civilian use shift to the battlefi...

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many economists are optimistic about the long term development of A.I., while being cautious about some of the shorter term transitions that it will initiate. Yesterday an open letter was published, signed by many economists #econsky #academicsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/07/econ...

I've now been the guest on podcasts aimed at different kinds of listeners. This is the one for people with an academic interest in market design (as well as Scott Kominers' academic origin story) #econsky #academicsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/07/why-...

Why markets fail — and how to fix them, a conversation about market design, among Scott Kominers, Tim Roughgarden and Al Roth

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“cychlorphine was so new at the time that it wasn’t even illegal yet in Estonia. The drug didn’t become banned in Estonia until this past spring.” marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

Felix Salmon talked to me about Moral Economics. There’s a transcript for those who prefer reading to listening. #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...