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Stanford economist. I have a market design blog: https://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/ Lately I’m interested in #controversial markets
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An invitation. #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/expe...

The 14th Conference on Economic Design is underway! Great talks. 🌍📈 Follow the program here 👉 sites.google.com/view/coed2025 #COED2025 #EconDesign

Once there was a country where universities and government collaborated on long-term big science projects marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/stan... #econsky #academicsky #astrophysics

You probably shouldn’t try all of these. #dating #marriage marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/roma...

Here’s the kind of news I enjoy reading #econsky #academicsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/cong...

Corrections www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Here’s a relatively new line of work. And it is supported by a newish scholarly journal. #econsky #academicsky #movies marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

First gradually, then all at once. #photos marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/jewi...

Canaries in coal mines marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/hate...

#econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/rola...

We (economists) aren't alone...:) #econsky #sociology marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/8th-...

www.newyorker.com/cartoons/dai...

Deliberation and consent can look like a solution, or a problem. #medicine marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/info...

If you need something done, ask a busy person. (Axel is Professor of Economics at the University of Cologne and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn) #econsky #academicsky #polisci marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/axel...

Stanford held graduation ceremonies today. Here's Jon Levin's thoughts about the role and value of universities. #econsky #academicsky news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

#econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/euro...

#NoKings #polisci marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/worr...

#econsky #academicsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...

I don’t recall seeing an abstract that makes so plain the author’s view that certain other authors know nothing (in PNAS). #econsky #academicsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/inte...

The reversal of Roe inspires opponents of same sex marriage marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/evan...

www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

www.newyorker.com/cartoons/dai...

“It isn’t about ending a person’s life, but shortening their death,” said State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal …one of the sponsors of the bill. It passed on Monday night by a vote of 35 to 27, mostly along partisan lines.” #medicine #death marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/new-...

Is medical aid in dying a civil right, or a civil wrong? (AKA assisted suicide, or death with dignity.) And what about the details? #medicine #death marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/medi...

There has been some progress in fighting ransomware attacks, but the attackers are evolving too. A report from the health care front. marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/rans...

Now that we don't want colleges to do science anymore, the courts have cleared the way for them to concentrate on sports. marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/coll...

Organ donation from deceased donors relies on the assurance that the donor's death was in no way hastened by the subsequent donation. Today's NYT has a report suggesting that careful guidelines were sometimes almost breached. #medicine #transplants #death

"By the 2010s Samuelson had become somewhat of an elder statesmen in the field of game theory economics. …” #econsky #academicsky #gametheory marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/yale...

#econsky #academicsky #marketdesign marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/info...

The NYT has the good news, for those of us who appreciate getting certain parts of our science from newspapers #coffee marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...

Harvard and CEU, Trump and Orban #harvard #hungary #academicsky www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

#canada marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/medi...

“only 4.9% of patients with kidney failure were aware that paying a donor is illegal in Pakistan.” #pakistan #medicine #law marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/kidn...

#econsky www.ft.com/content/71cf...

I somehow missed this open letter from Lech Walesa when it first came out, following the Trump-Zelensky meeting in the White House... It's worth a read. www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/co...

Not all international adoptees from China during the one-child period were orphans… #adoption marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/05/chil...

Making Canada healthy... #Econsky #medicine marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/05/amer...

“This generation of Gen Z, 18 to 28—it’s not a hookup generation. They don’t drink as much alcohol, they don’t have as much sex,” he told investors this month. “We need to adapt our products to accept that reality.” #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/05/tind...

www.newyorker.com/cartoons/dai...

#France #medicine marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/05/medi...

#india marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/05/kidn...

“government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/o...

The Morality of Legality. casssunstein.substack.com/p/the-morali...

Institutional review boards (IRBs) often get this wrong. #econsky #academicsky #medicine marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/05/ethi...

Some people support both IVF and abortion (women's right to choose) and some people oppose both (embryos are people), but many oppose abortion but support IVF. #ethics marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/05/thin...