Showing posts with label controversial markets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label controversial markets. Show all posts
Friday, May 8, 2026

It’s time to carefully but urgently rethink payments to kidney donors. My op-ed in the Washington Post

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 This morning the Washington Post published my op-ed online (which is scheduled to appear in the print edition on Sunday). 800 words is hard...
Thursday, May 7, 2026

The Right to Choose to Die. Alvin Roth interviewed by Tim Phillips 1 May 2026 (VoxTalks Economics)

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 Disputes about medical aid in dying are as contentious in Britain as in the US. Here's some discussion on VoxTalks Economics, in connec...
Sunday, May 3, 2026

Federal Appeals Court Temporarily Halts Abortion Pill Access by Mail, Appeal to SCOTUS

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 Is the state of Louisiana harmed if women living there can receive abortion pills by mail? Federal Appeals Court Temporarily Halts Abortion...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Moral Economics: a brief review in the Sunday Times ("fascinating and very different":)

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 A column (on unemployment) in the Sunday Times by it's economics editor  David Smith, ends with a brief review of Moral Economics, as a...
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Organ donation after euthanasia in the Netherlands

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In the Netherlands, not only is it legal to receive medical aid in dying (MAID), but  a growing number of MAID patients are able to successf...

Moral Economics, on the Passion Struck podcast

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In the run up to the May publication date, I've been interviewed on a variety of podcasts about my book Moral Economics: From Prostituti...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Moral Economics, on the Armchair Expert podcast

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At the Armchair Expert podcast, Dax Shepard interviewed me in anticipation of the May publication of my book Moral Economics: From Prostit...
Monday, April 6, 2026

Moral Economics: Al Roth and Ray Fisman at Cambridge Public Library, Monday May 11

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 Here's the invitation to a discussion I'll have in May with Ray Fisman , about Moral Economics. Some of my Boston/Cambridge friend...
Friday, March 27, 2026

Germany legalizes kidney exchange !!

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 Axel Ockenfels forwards the good news.  He writes: "It passed! The Bundestag voted today to permit kidney exchange in Germany. The ...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

The American demand for guns (and for non-lethal firearms), by Alsan, Schwartzstein, and Stantcheva

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 The American market for guns is among the most complex of controversial markets, since gun purchases are regarded by many Americans as repu...
Monday, March 23, 2026

The innovative supply chain of illegal drugs--even in prisons

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 Strategy sets are big, so we’re not going to be able to end illegal drug use by spraying defoliants on fields of poppies, or arresting deal...
Sunday, March 22, 2026

Paid plasma donations are becoming more middle-class

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  The NYT has the story: The Middle-Class Suburbanites Who Sell Their Blood Plasma to Get By.  Across the United States, plasma centers are ...
Thursday, March 19, 2026

The Faroe Islands are moving to end their ban on abortion

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 Some controversies are familiar all over the world. The NYT has the story: The Faroe Islands Are Changing Some of Europe’s Strictest Aborti...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Pre-publication review of Moral Economics from Publisher's Weekly

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Another small adventure in publishing:)  Here's the pre-publication review of Moral Economics from Publisher's Weekly . " TL;D...
Monday, March 16, 2026

International statistics on plasma donation show that it is quite safe

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 Peter Jaworski collects the statistics from Europe and North America: Plasma donation is safe And commercial plasma donation is not less s...
Saturday, March 14, 2026

How safe is plasma donation?

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 Here's a story from the NYT, about the recent regularization of paid plasma donation in (some provinces of) Canada. How Safe Is Plasma ...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

How to regulate legal marijuana?

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 The New York Times editorial board thinks about the current environment for (now legal) marijuana, and calls for more careful regulation, a...
Friday, February 13, 2026

Trump Administration Removes Pride Flag From Stonewall National Monument (but the Stonewall Inn is still in private hands)

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 When a national monument is designated around a private business in a liberal state, the ability of the President to alter its message is  ...
Friday, February 6, 2026

Moral Economics: back-cover blurbs

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 I now know what blurbs will likely be on the back cover of Moral Economics when it comes out in May. They are by Peter Singer , Abhijit Ba...
Monday, January 26, 2026

Repugnance: two overviews (one by humans, one by Ai)

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Here are two overviews of repugnance, one by economists in a forthcoming book chapter, and one from xAi via its large language model, in Gro...