Market Design

I post market design related news and items about repugnant markets. See my Stanford profile. I have a 2026 book : Moral Economics The subtitle is "From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work."

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Saturday, June 27, 2026

The Netherlands Records Its First Assisted Death of a Child Between 1 and 12

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A child receiving medical aid in dying clearly arouses more repugnance than when an adult accesses MAID. But surely that isn't becaus...

Thursday, March 13, 2025

Colombia proposes coca leaf legalization

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The Guardian has the story: Colombia urges UN to remove coca leaf from harmful substances list Foreign minister says legalisation of main i...

Thursday, September 21, 2023

Drugs, drug economics, and violence in Colombia and Ecuador, as Colombia withdraws from the war on drugs

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Fighting a war on drugs hasn't yielded clear successes (at any point in the supply chain), but surrendering is no picnic either. The W...

Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Decriminalizing drugs at the head of the supply chain--Colombia

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The criminalization of drugs has different consequences on different parts of the supply chain. Here's a harm reduction proposal from C...

Thursday, October 7, 2021

Market design in La Republica

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In anticipation of the Econometric Society meeting in Colombia later this month, I was interviewed by La Republica. The interview was in E...

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