Showing posts with label controversial markets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label controversial markets. Show all posts
Saturday, June 20, 2026

Medical aid in dying (and Moral Economics) on Freakonomics Radio

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  The latest episode of Freakonomics looks at the controversies and philosophies involved in the growing legalization of medical aid in dyin...
Friday, June 19, 2026

Starzl Lecture: "The Economics of Kidney Exchange," Sunday at the American Transplant Congress in Boston

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  I'll be speaking Sunday at the American Transplant Congress, on kidney exchange.  It will be hard to squeeze in all the recent develop...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

A chef makes the case for foie gras, and addresses the concerns regarding animal welfare

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I'm no expert on the production of foie gras, but I am glad to see arguments about repugnant transactions and controversial markets that...
Monday, June 15, 2026

Horsemeat, Prostitution and Kidney Sales, interview by Peter Coy

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 Peter Coy interviewed me about Moral Economics for his substack Economics for Everyone. You can find the video and the transcript at this ...
Thursday, June 11, 2026

Euthanasia and hospice care for pets

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Medical aid in dying and hospice care are now available for pets too.   The New Yorker has the story: When Should You Say Goodbye to a Pet? ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Will cloned horses end progress in horse breeding?

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  The WSJ has the story:  More Top Horses Are Being Cloned, Rattling the World of Equestrian Sports "Exact genetic replicas of successf...
Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Privacy and prices: will A.I. accelerate surveillance pricing?

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If A.I. assisted "surveillance pricing" is going to identify you as a high willingness-to-pay consumer, maybe it will be a good id...
Saturday, June 6, 2026

Two audio podcasts about Moral Economics, interviews by a Texan, and by a libertarian

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 First, from NPR radio station KERA for North Texas, the Think talk show podcast (interview by Krys Boyd ): What black markets can teach us ...
Friday, June 5, 2026

Some major themes in Moral Economics (posted by the Next Big Idea Club)

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 The Next Big Idea Club asked me to summarize some of the themes in Moral Economics , and has now published them here: A Nobel Economist Exp...
Thursday, June 4, 2026

A.I. helps re-identify anonymized data-- how it worked in the case of a censured judge

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   Above the Law has the story of how the judge in question was successfully re-identified: Judiciary Tried To Hide ‘Sex In Chambers’ Judge’...
Wednesday, June 3, 2026

About a third of Americans live in states that will have Medical Aid in Dying, come September.

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  The NYT has the story: By September, Nearly a Third of Americans Will Live in States With Legal Aid in Dying Despite widespread support in...
Monday, June 1, 2026

The American Society of Transplantation prepares to consider a pilot study of financial incentives for living organ donation

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 As I prepare to speak later this month at the American Transplant Congress in Boston , I note that  the American Society of Transplantation...
Saturday, May 30, 2026

Mary Childs, formerly of Planet Money, has a new podcast, called Mary in America (on which we talk about Moral Economics)

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  Mary Childs , formerly of Planet Money, has a new podcast, called Mary in America . I was the guest on her first interview:  Organs, Sex W...
Thursday, May 28, 2026

"How Moral Panic Creates Black Markets," interview by Nick Gillespie about Moral Economics

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Nick Gillespie, from Reason Magazine,  interviews me about " How Moral Panic Creates Black Markets " "Nobel Prize-winning eco...
Monday, May 25, 2026

French nicotine pouch ban is ‘attack on Swedish way of life’

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 Is Swedish nicotine like French wine? The FT has the story: " French nicotine pouch ban is ‘attack on Swedish way of life’, minister s...
Sunday, May 24, 2026

Mark Granovetter and I discuss Moral Economics

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  Speaking with the great sociologist Mark Granovetter gave me the opportunity to tell the joke "“Economists study how people make cho...
Saturday, May 23, 2026

Work and Moral Economics: Two Podcasts (Dart Lindsley's "Work for Humans" and Ben Zweig's "The Economics of Work).

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Two podcasts interview me about Moral Economics, starting from a concern with work.    Dart Lindsley  interviews me on his Podcast "Wor...