Showing posts with label controversial markets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label controversial markets. Show all posts
Friday, September 25, 2026

Heroin, hitmen and black markets on Behavioral Grooves

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The hosts of the podcast  Behavioral Grooves open by chatting about heroin and hitmen, followed by a discussion among the three of us:     ...
Saturday, September 19, 2026

A passionate proponent of transplants is (temporarily) unregistered as a donor: Greg Segal in the NYT

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I'm a little shaken to learn that (even*) Greg Segal has temporarily suspended his registration as a potential deceased organ donor.  My...
Thursday, September 17, 2026

Would Jesus like Waymo?

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Are robots (and robot cars) repugnant?  To Baptists?   The Washington Post has the story: Would Jesus like Waymo? Baptists have thoughts. As...
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

A.I. guardrails: Trump Says “a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT" is all that’s needed to rein in A.I.

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 The debate over how to regulate, promote, and defend against new developments in A.I. has taken a market design turn, with increased calls ...
Thursday, September 10, 2026

Surrogacy (on each side of the Atlantic)

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 Crossing the Atlantic today, to return home from Paris, this story in The Atlantic seems apropos: Mothers for Sale.  Most of Europe bans co...
Friday, September 4, 2026

Privacy, A.I. and the backlash against Flock license-plate readers

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  Privacy while driving seems to be more important than privacy while surfing the internet, to judge from recent reactions to automated lice...
Friday, August 28, 2026

The Gray Area, on Moral Economics and controversial markets

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 Here's a podcast recorded some weeks ago that has just  been published . We talk kidneys and other controversial markets covered in Mo...
Monday, August 24, 2026

Abortion opponents seeking to ban surrogacy in Texas (and supporters are thinking about more regulation)

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 Human reproduction gives rise to lots of different controversies, with the partisans not always aligned across issues the ways you might su...
Saturday, August 15, 2026

Controversial markets in Canada

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  I talk with Gemma Boothroyd, about Moral Economics and controversial markets in Canada, including medical aid in dying, about which she h...
Thursday, August 13, 2026

The Paradox of Protection: Overregulation Threatens Living Kidney Donation in Mexico,

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  Protections intended to thwart organ trafficking may inadvertently also "protect" legitimate patients and donors from receiving ...
Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Peter Coy on Moral Economics in The Free Press

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  The Nobel Laureate Who’d Buy Your Kidney What is bad about prostitution? Why is it wrong to eat horses? Al Roth’s latest book asks the mos...
Monday, August 10, 2026

Deceased organ donation by Ashlagi and Roth in the Annual Review of Economics (with open questions)

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 Here's a review paper concentrating primarily on transplantation of  organs (primarily kidneys) from deceased donors. It closes with a ...
Sunday, August 2, 2026

The New Bazaar on Moral Economics

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 Cardiff Garcia interviewed me about Moral Economics , and we began by talking about medical aid in dying, and moved briskly on to other co...
Friday, July 31, 2026

Delayed feedback on a controversial talk--and some positive signals of potential for change

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 One feature of giving talks to unfamiliar audiences is that you only get noisy feedback on how your talk was received.  This past June, I g...
Monday, July 27, 2026

Multi-hospital kidney exchange in Brazil

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An article in Floha de S. Paulo, tells of the first inter-hospital kidney exchange in Brazil:   Transplante renal pareado amplia opção para ...
Thursday, July 23, 2026

Kidney exchange in Germany can draw on the experience in other countries

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 Here's an editorial arguing that as the recently legalized kidney exchange in Germany is implemented, attention should be paid to the c...
Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Surrogacy: a political scandal in Germany, and fertility tourism around the world

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 Here's a story in the NYT, covering an uproar that's been in the German newspapers for a week or so now.  A leader in the German go...
Monday, July 20, 2026

Exam schools, gifted programs, and "giftedness"

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 Are some children more gifted than others, and can they be identified in ways that aren't irreparably confounded with socioeconomic sta...
Saturday, July 18, 2026

MAID in France

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 After a multi-year legislative struggle, France's  Assemblée Nationale legalized medical aid in dying for some patients. Le Monde has t...
Friday, July 17, 2026

Is Healthcare a Moral Marketplace?

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I was delighted to be invited to discuss healthcare with Drs Wendy Dean and Matt Ramsey.  We had a discussion ranging from the health care m...