Showing posts with label regulation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label regulation. Show all posts
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...
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 ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Regulated and black market marijuana in Germany

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 The FT has the story: Germany becomes Europe’s largest regulated cannabis market.  Critics are calling for legislation to be tightened two ...
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 ...
Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Civil society, state and market by Bowles and Carlin in Annual Review of Economics

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  Sam Bowles and Wendy Carlin propose that we should think of civil society as the third leg in regulating economic life, along with gover...
Sunday, August 9, 2026

Regulation after a first occurrence : Cornell bans students from skinning bears in a dormitory kitchen

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 It turns out that Cornell had no rule preventing students from skinning bears in a communal dormitory kitchen.  But now they do. (A lot of ...
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Sports Betting, Prediction Markets, and ‘Repugnant Transactions’--a conversation at Covers.com

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 I was recently interviewed at the gambling hyper-site Covers.com about the growth of sports gambling both on dedicated sites and on predict...
Sunday, June 28, 2026

The moral economics of prediction markets, in the NYT

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 As part of it's Dealbook feature, the NYT yesterday included this conversation about The moral economics of prediction markets "Th...
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...
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Transplant problems and public support for organ donation

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  The Kidney Transplant Collaborative is worried about the status of kidney transplants in the US.  Here's the statement they published...
Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Surrogacy stories (state regulators, take note)

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 Surrogacy in the U.S. has become well established, with commercial surrogacy legal in almost all US states.  But problems sometimes occur, ...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

Surrogacy, and escrow accounts

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  Surrogacy contracts involve a long term relationship, focused on a nine month pregnancy.  So commercial surrogacy depends on secure financ...
Friday, August 22, 2025

Regulating markets for antiquities, to more effectively compete with black markets (Kremer and Wilkening in JEP)

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 Bans on illegally recovering, selling, and exporting archeological antiquities often result in black markets.  Michael Kremer and Tom Wilke...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Market design podcast on NPR's Planet Money (with Alex Teytelboym)

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  Alex Teytelboym comments throughout a program about market design on NPR's Planet Money:   The episode focuses on the design o...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

The science and politics of vaping in the U.S

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 The Washington Post has the story: FDA lets Juul market vapes in the U.S. three years after trying to ban them Federal regulators first ann...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Organ donation after circulatory death: the NYT recounts some disturbing cases

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 The NYT has a disturbing story this morning about organ donation after circulatory death. These are cases in which a decision has been made...
Saturday, April 26, 2025

Prolific sperm donation and incest risk in the Netherlands

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 The Guardian has the story: ‘Medical calamity’: dozens of Dutch sperm donors fathered at least 25 children .  Discovery that clinics have b...
Friday, January 17, 2025

FDA Proposes Reducing Nicotine to Nonaddictive Level in Cigarettes: I see 5 possible futures

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 Here's the FDA press release: FDA Proposes Significant Step Toward Reducing Nicotine to Minimally or Nonaddictive Level in Cigarettes a...
Friday, December 27, 2024

Sports gambling presents problems for gamblers, athletes, and sports

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  Sports betting has some potentially dire implications both for betters and for athletes and sports. Gamblers can find in-app gambling whil...
Thursday, December 26, 2024

Regulating emerging technologies

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  Here's a recent RAND report, on the current diverse attempts to regulate emerging biotechnologies, focusing on organoids,* embryos, ge...