Market Design

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

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Showing posts with label obscenity. Show all posts

Saturday, January 29, 2022

Erotic movies versus porn -- times and terms are changing

In a 1964 case, Jacobellis v. Ohio , Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously declared that it was difficult to define pornography, b...

Saturday, May 1, 2021

Repugnant language: "How the N-Word Became Unsayable" in the NY Times, by John McWhorter

The linguist John McWhorter , author of the book Nine Nasty Words , may be familiar to some readers of this blog through his podcasts wi...

Monday, October 19, 2020

Censoring repugnant words by algorithm

Some people like to say things that other people think they shouldn't say. In the age of the internet, politeness can be (somewhat) a...

Thursday, July 4, 2019

FUCT up, censorship down in Supreme Court trademark decision

The WSJ has the story: Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on Immoral or Scandalous Trademarks The decision is a win for California clothing...

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