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Lainie Ross: Deceased Donor Kidney Allocation: Equity, Efficiency and Unintended Consequences
Lainie Ross: Deceased Donor Kidney Allocation: Equity, Efficiency and Unintended Consequences
ABSTRACT In her talk, Ross describes three ways that kidney donations are allocated to those in need of a kidney transplant, including the Equal Opportunity Supplemented by Fair Innings (EOFI) method. She will discuss the conceptions of efficiency and equity that are employed by each model, and evaluate whether EOFI could conform to the National […]
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Patricia Churchland: Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality
Patricia Churchland: Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality
ABSTRACT In her talk, renowned philosopher Churchland speaks about how the evolution of the mammalian brain led to the expansion from ‘me’ to ‘me-and-mine’ – the very heart of morality. Learn about ‘caring circuitry’ in the brain, and how the brain molecule oxytocin is at the hub of the intricate neural adaptations sustaining our society. […]
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Eric Schliesser: What Happened to Knightian (and Keynesian) Uncertainty Post WWII?
Eric Schliesser: What Happened to Knightian (and Keynesian) Uncertainty Post WWII?
ABSTRACT In this talk, Schliesser discusses the displacement of Knightian uncertainty from economics after 1945 by two new strategies. He will look at this discarded theory that could no longer be articulated, or even recognized, by the new theories that displaced it. Schliesser will also discuss the recent return to the concept of economic uncertainty […]