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If President-elect Obama wants to know the challenges he can expect to contend with in his first 100 days of office, his “honeymoon period,” he need look no further than the state of Michigan. I’m not talking about what he can learn from Michigan about unemployment, where we are #1! I’m not talking about lessons…

In a new study published today in JAMA, my colleagues and I found that even after accounting for productivity, women working as physician researchers at American Medical Schools are paid $13,000 less per year than their male colleagues, a difference that amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of their careers.
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Economist and lawyer Ian Ayres, or should I say, lawyer and economist Ian Ayres, hmm, . . . weighs in on Free Market Madness on his Freakonomics blog. Nice to see the words “hilarious” in a review, and not followed by a phrase like ” . . . in his ignorance.” Check out his post…