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Al Roth
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My market design blog: https://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/ Forthcoming in May: Moral Economics https://www.amazon.com/Moral-Economics-Prostitution-Controversial-Transactions/dp/1541702018
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I now know what blurbs will be on the back cover of Moral Economics. They are by Peter Singer, Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo, Claudia Goldin, and Paul Milgrom & Bob Wilson, all people whose work I admire more than I can say.
#econsky #academicsky
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Moral Economics: back-cover blurbs
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February 6, 2026 at 1:06 PM
alroth.bsky.social
I was struck by the reviewer comparing competitive chess to academic economics.
#econsky #academicsky #chess
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Ken Rogoff's intellectual autobiography
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February 5, 2026 at 4:10 PM
alroth.bsky.social
"Greg Segal, CEO of the New York-based Organize...calls organ procurement organizations’ claims “distasteful fear-mongering.”

“The rule is already working,” he said of the new tiered system. “The single best thing for patients is for CMS to continue to hold these organizations accountable.”
kimkrawiec.bsky.social Kim Krawiec @kimkrawiec.bsky.social · 1d
“North Carolina’s largest organ procurement nonprofit is suing the Trump administration over a new rating system the group argues could upend the transplant system and risk lives.”
N.C.-Based Nonprofit Sues Trump Administration Over Organ ‘Hunger Games’
The state’s largest organ procurement organization argues new rating system will lead to cutthroat competition and fewer lives saved.
www.theassemblync.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:34 PM
alroth.bsky.social
Here's the announcement from the University of Pécs, of the first kidney exchange performed in Hungary, a dozen years after first legislation passed to legalize kidney exchange in 2014.
#hungary #econsky #medicine
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Kidney exchange comes to Hungary
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February 4, 2026 at 3:06 PM
alroth.bsky.social
"I’m writing because "The Nash solution and the utility of bargaining" has stayed with me, thoughtful, layered, and resonant in a way that invites real conversation. It felt like the kind of book our readers would want to spend time with."
#academicsky

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Spam invitation to be featured in a book club
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February 3, 2026 at 1:09 PM
alroth.bsky.social
Altruism as a relief from populism
#econsky #medicine
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Kidney donation, in today's NYT
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February 2, 2026 at 4:30 PM
alroth.bsky.social
By the time it seems as if things can’t get much worse, there’s a nonnegligible chance that they will.
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Bloody Minnesota
Daron Acemoglu thinks the recent killings of innocent civilians by federal agents mark a political turning point for the US.
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February 1, 2026 at 4:24 PM
alroth.bsky.social
It remains to be seen how enforceable a statewide ban will be. (Local bans on something as addictive as nicotine are likely to face black markets sourced from neighboring jurisdictions without a ban.)
#india #econsky
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Tobacco banned in Indian state of Odisha
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January 31, 2026 at 2:39 PM
alroth.bsky.social
“There is often more than one bottleneck in a congested system and opening that bottleneck will sometimes mean the same queue builds up somewhere else."
#econsky
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Tim Harford on British queues (and how queues get long)
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January 30, 2026 at 2:52 PM
alroth.bsky.social
In case you haven’t met him yet…
#econsky #academicsky #health #hbs
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Alex Chan on market design and organ transplants (and how to begin a video)
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January 29, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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brucespringsteen.net
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
alroth.bsky.social
Incentives matter (you get more of what you measure).
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/01/rede...
Redesigning transplant and OPO center incentives (Chan and Roth in JAMA; Bae, Sweat, Melcher and Ashlagi in JAMA Surgery)
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January 28, 2026 at 3:42 PM
alroth.bsky.social
Among President Mnookin's many accomplishments is one that I haven't seen mentioned in the announcements of her appointment.
#academicsky #kidneys
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Jennifer Mnookin to be Columbia University's next president
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January 27, 2026 at 1:34 PM
alroth.bsky.social
Here are two overviews of repugnance, one by three veteran scholars of repugnant transactions and controversial markets in a forthcoming book chapter, and one from xAi via its large language model, in Grokipedia.
#econsky #academicsky
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Repugnance: two overviews (one by humans, one by Ai)
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January 26, 2026 at 2:23 PM
alroth.bsky.social
Economists shouldn't be surprised that there is some incidence of deliberate fraud in science. Being a scientist is an attractive job, and sometimes a competitive one.
#econsky #academicsky
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Peer review isn't sufficient to detect/deter fraud in science
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January 25, 2026 at 2:52 PM
alroth.bsky.social
A game targeting a niche audience…
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Organ attack (the game)
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January 24, 2026 at 3:38 PM
alroth.bsky.social
"We come in peace, and we think we deserve a special prize for said peace or we will destroy you.”
Cartoon by Matt ReuterJanuary 22, 2026
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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, January 22nd
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
www.newyorker.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:46 PM
alroth.bsky.social
Mazel tov:)
#econsky #cs
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/01/noam...
Noam Nisan and Ariel Procaccia recognized as ACM Fellows
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January 23, 2026 at 1:08 PM
alroth.bsky.social
“his interdisciplinary research has resulted in Scandinavia's first algorithm-based organ transplant program and the world's first algorithm-based system for geographical placement of quota refugees.”
proftommyandersson.bsky.social Tommy Andersson @proftommyandersson.bsky.social · 15d
I am incredibly proud, happy, and honored to have been elected a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The Academy was founded in 1739 by Carl Linnaeus and few other Swedish scientists. I am member No. 1809. I couldn't be more excited and, honestly, shocked 🥳

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Nya ledamöter invalda inom matematik, fysik, kemi och samhällsvetenskap - Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien
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January 22, 2026 at 9:27 PM
alroth.bsky.social
Mike Rees, the founder of the Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation (APKD) describes how (with the help of a grant from Stanford) the APKD is helping Brazilian transplant docs get kidney exchange going there.
#brazil #econsky #medicine
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Kidney exchange in Brazil (a clinical trial)
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January 22, 2026 at 3:37 PM
alroth.bsky.social
The U.S. Army has established a new career pathway for officers to specialize in artificial intelligence and machine learning
#econsky #army
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How will the Army build AI and robotics expertise in uniform?
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January 21, 2026 at 2:01 PM
alroth.bsky.social
The tough market for doctoral students is hardly unique to economics. What’s different is economists are interested in measuring and understanding how labor markets work—and they have brought that to bear on their own profession.
#econsky #academicsky

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The job market for economists, 2026
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January 20, 2026 at 1:27 PM
alroth.bsky.social
Religion and gender turn out to be complicated (and therefore well worth studying).
#econsky #academicsky #religion #gender
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AEA Code of Conduct: (I can't answer "no" to all of the screening questions)
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January 19, 2026 at 1:34 PM
alroth.bsky.social
“Iran, Cuba, Syria, North Korea, Crimea, the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) or the Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR) regions of the Ukraine”
#econsky #academicsky
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Copyright transfer clause: blacklisted countries
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January 18, 2026 at 1:47 PM
alroth.bsky.social
He decided to stick to research.
#academicsky
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The post-Nobel career of Adam Riess, and controversies in cosmology
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January 17, 2026 at 1:57 PM