Lecture on Mechanism Design Arnold Kling By Arnold Kling, Oct 17 2007 SHARE POST: He’s not a Nobel Laureate, but Al Roth gave a recent lecture at Google on the topic. He talks about job matching and kidney sales as examples. Bonus question: can you name the economist who introduces Roth? Thanks to Greg Mankiw for the pointer.
Oct 17 2007 Economics of Health Care Doctors' Statistical Ignorance Arnold Kling Megan McArdle writes, Take a test for a disease that has a false positive rate of 5%, and a disease prevalence of 1 in 1000--lupus, say. If you test positive in a random assay, what are the odds that you actually have the disease? Most people--even, apparently, a shocking number of doctors--would say that the odds ar... 22 Read More
Oct 17 2007 Economic and Political Philosophy Masonomics Arnold Kling I try to explain what George Mason economics is all about. If you want to be a Masonomist, you have to lose the we. When people use we in today's politics , they are doing two things. 1. Appealing to a moral entity that stands apart from and above John, Mary, or any other individual 2. Treating government as th... 20 Read More
Oct 17 2007 Microeconomics Lecture on Mechanism Design Arnold Kling He's not a Nobel Laureate, but Al Roth gave a recent lecture at Google on the topic. He talks about job matching and kidney sales as examples. Bonus question: can you name the economist who introduces Roth? Thanks to Greg Mankiw for the pointer. 6 Read More