Al Roth

Opinion | What to Do When the President Acts Like a Five-Year-Old?

Nobel prize winner George Akerlof (my former colleague) on the firing of statistics officials:

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Xenotransplantation in Humans: pig organs edge closer to being clinically kosher

Tomorrow could be here in just a few years
#transplants #econsky #medicine
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Only time will tell. We’re living in an unusual time.

I was the AEA's President Elect as the first Trump term began. We worried about government statistics then, and appointed a committee that included members (such as Google's Chief Economist) who might be in a position to help make reliable statistics available if the government went dark.
#econsky

Nicotine is insidious
#econsky #addiction
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How to Fix Foreign Aid USAID's former Chief Economist reflects on DOGE

The brilliant Dean Karlan, with whom I worked when he was Chief Economist of USAID, talks about how to reform foreign aid in the long run.

This is what genuine commitment to efficiency looks like. Not ignorant sneering sledgehammers. Smart, conservative, evidence-based reallocation of resources.

Ai chatbot as Cyrano de Bergerac...
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US Waitlist Registrants who Received Transplantation Abroad

Around one tenth of one percent of patients waiting for a deceased-donor organ transplant in the U.S. get one overseas instead. Here's a paper that notes that this is "not universally unethical." (Transplants are complicated...)
#econsky #medicine
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COMSOC 2025 workshop on Computational Social Choice, Vienna, Austria, 17-19 September 2025.

Econ-CS-PoliSci conference
#econsky #CS
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„The Bottom Line: Without significant recovery in visa issuance in July and August, up to 150,000 fewer students may arrive [in the US] this fall.“

Akhil Vohra ‪@akhilsv.bsky.social‬ explores unraveling of labor markets in AEJ:Micro
#econsky
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Here's a modern short story about privacy, and dating. A dating app allowed women to widely share information about men. The app asked women to reliably identify themselves. It was hacked...
#econsky #privacy
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The WHO calls for the “design of a Global Strategy on Donation and Transplantation."
#medicine #econsky #kidneys
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RIP

Opinion | José Andrés: People of Good Conscience Must Stop the Starvation in Gaza

José Andrés: People of Good Conscience Must Stop the Starvation in Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...

A difficult debate continues:
“‘Bad deaths scar families for ever’: what terminally ill people want you to know about assisted dying”
#dying #medicine
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Summer seminars are in full swing at Stanford
#econsky
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Personal Belgians | Charles Petersen You can tell men’s cycling isn’t a serious sport because the “Big Six” athletes come from four small nations—Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Slovenia—with a combined population of 38 million.

Here’s a lovely long description of the Tour from a devoted fan.
“A single person on two wheels stands one step up from nature itself: a game of humanity and its most basic technologies.”
#tourdefrance
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The competitions within the competition (from Agence France Presse)
#tourdefrance #sports
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What Columbia's settlement with the Trump administration means for higher education Columbia University and the Trump administration reached a deal that restores federal funding and research grant money to the university. As part of the agreement, Columbia will pay $200 million to th...

Wesleyan's Michael Roth on the Columbia settlement: It'snot good for the Jews. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

INFORMS celebrates Yash Kanoria

Congratulations to Yash Kanoria
#econsky #academicsky #operations
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New things are hard.
#econsky #medicine #kidneys
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Tom Gauld on the life of a scientist and Twisteddoodles on when work takes precedence — New Scientist Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox. ➔ Twisteddoodles for New Scientist For more on what’s new in science

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Trump administration to destroy nearly $10m of contraceptives for women overseas As part of president’s shuttering of USAID, destruction of the contraceptives will cost US taxpayers $167,000

More government efficiency:(
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#econsky #medicine

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What a difference a change of administration makes in health regulation
#nicotine
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“Fentanyl deaths have been dropping, in part because of medications that can reverse overdoses and curb the urge to use opioids. But no such prescriptions exist for meth, which works differently on the brain.”
#econsky #drugs #medicine
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National Ice Cream Day is Sunday, July 20: These Bay Area shops are offering deals, new flavors Holiday has been celebrated on the third Sunday of each July since 1984

National Ice Cream Day 2025 is being celebrated today—Sunday, July 20! It’s the third Sunday of July, officially designated by President Ronald Reagan

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The NYT reports this morning on some cases in which Organ Procurement Organizations reportedly pressured hospitals prematurely to declare the death of potential donors.
#medicine #transplants
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