Within the US, the majority of kidney exchanges continue to be performed within hospitals, suggesting a fragmented market that comes at a large efficiency cost. National platforms may need to be redesigned to encourage full participation, with reimbursement reform.
Read more...A detailed look at GE’s fall from financial grace.
Read more...One of the reasons little has changed in economics despite the financial criss showing it to be deeply flawed is the power of the “top five” journals, which show both inbreeding and clientelism.
Read more...Conventional wisdom asserts that American politics is becoming more and more tribal. But the chiefs of the tribes share a lot in common: dependence on big money.
Read more...Explaining a fundamental error in a widely-touted paper on HAMP modifications.
Read more...Contrary to the dominant media narrative, social issues like racism and sexism on their own can’t explain Trump’s success.
Read more...Who will feel the pain first in the coming credit squeeze?
Read more...Some of the analytical sleights of hand used to promote the ideology of financializatation.
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: China PMI, tariff exemptions, Pelosi “we will win,” ranked choice voting, AOC staffer benefits, Mike Duncan “How Republics End,” employment, employment cost, Apple, Necco, same-day delivery, stabilization wedges, maroons, Happy Halloween
Read more...Contrary to popular perception, Brussels and the Italian government come out ahead from sparring over Italy’s budget, and what works for them does not work for much of anyone else.
Read more...How a new paper on HAMP manages, by not understanding the program. to whitewash it as well as promote financialization.
Read more...Some back of the envelope estimates show that the economic cost of climate change is already cutting into growth in a big way….and it will only get much worse.
Read more...Michael Hudson on his themes of how banks are mainly funding real estate rather than the economy and the problem of failing to write down debt that can’t be repaid.
Read more...China has more of a glass jaw than most economics commentators thought. But how is Trump’s trade war likely to progress?
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