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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Thursday, August 20, 2026

How heart transplants gave birth to brain death (new book by Basil Baccouche)

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Basil Baccouche has a forthcoming book, which I found pretty thrilling: The End of Death: A Surgeon, a Heart Transplant, and the Fight to...

Saturday, August 1, 2026

Healthcare in jails

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The first stop (post-arrest, pre-trial) for many people caught up in the US criminal justice system is a local jail. Many of the people ...

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...

Monday, July 6, 2026

When is someone dead? (dead enough to donate organs?)

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Transplantation of deceased-donor organs has made us rethink the notion of death itself. What does it mean that a person is dead, while or...

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