Market Design

I'll post market design related news and items about repugnant markets. See also my Stanford profile. I have a general-interest book on market design: Who Gets What--and Why The subtitle is "The new economics of matchmaking and market design."

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Saturday, November 18, 2023

Will divorce become legal in the Philippines?

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The NYT has the story: ‘Just Like Medicine’: A New Push for Divorce in a Nation Where It’s Illegal. A campaign in the Philippines that f...

Friday, May 19, 2023

The Comstock Act returns from the dead, post Roe

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While there's no agreement about whether life begins at conception, it appears that the Comstock Act has risen from the dead to play a ...

Monday, April 10, 2023

Comstockery and abortifacients, on the way to the Supreme Court

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The Comstock Act of 1873 made it a Federal crime to distribute information or medicines for contraception or abortion, and more generally o...

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Contraception as a repugnant transaction (the return of...)

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Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination has done a lot to put contraception back...

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Contraception: reversal of the direction of repugnance?

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What is viewed as a repugnant transaction can change over time, and even reverse direction entirely. An example is that laws in the US have ...

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