Showing posts with label repugnance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label repugnance. Show all posts
Monday, August 3, 2026

Congressional Republicans find IVF repugnant (by stealth, in an election year)

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 Public rhetoric and parliamentary maneuvering display opposite positions  on IVF  in an election year. G.O.P. Kills Bid to Expand I.V.F. Ac...
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...
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...
Saturday, July 11, 2026

The Economics of Repugnant Transactions, with Felix Salmon on Slate

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  Felix Salmon talked to me about Moral Economics : Money Talks: The Economics of Repugnant Transactions, with Felix Salmon on Slate . ...
Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Canada re-thinks medical aid in dying for psychiatric diseases

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  A column in the Washington Post conveys the story: With 76,475 dead, Canada appears to find its line on euthanasia A parliamentary committ...
Sunday, July 5, 2026

Prediction markets, polling, and insider trading

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 My book about controversial markets has attracted some interest from people following prediction markets.  Here's another recent interv...
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...
Saturday, June 27, 2026

The Netherlands Records Its First Assisted Death of a Child Between 1 and 12

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  A child receiving medical aid in dying clearly arouses more repugnance than when an adult accesses MAID.  But surely that isn't becaus...
Friday, June 26, 2026

Moral Economics on Lives Well Lived, by Peter Singer & Kasia de Lazari Radek

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 The moral philosophers Peter Singer & Kasia de Lazari Radek interviewed me about Moral Economics on their podcast Lives Well Lived. ...
Saturday, June 20, 2026

Medical aid in dying (and Moral Economics) on Freakonomics Radio

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  The latest episode of Freakonomics looks at the controversies and philosophies involved in the growing legalization of medical aid in dyin...
Friday, June 19, 2026

Starzl Lecture: "The Economics of Kidney Exchange," Sunday at the American Transplant Congress in Boston

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  I'll be speaking Sunday at the American Transplant Congress, on kidney exchange.  It will be hard to squeeze in all the recent develop...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

A chef makes the case for foie gras, and addresses the concerns regarding animal welfare

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I'm no expert on the production of foie gras, but I am glad to see arguments about repugnant transactions and controversial markets that...
Monday, June 15, 2026

Horsemeat, Prostitution and Kidney Sales, interview by Peter Coy

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 Peter Coy interviewed me about Moral Economics for his substack Economics for Everyone. You can find the video and the transcript at this ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Will cloned horses end progress in horse breeding?

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  The WSJ has the story:  More Top Horses Are Being Cloned, Rattling the World of Equestrian Sports "Exact genetic replicas of successf...
Saturday, June 6, 2026

Two audio podcasts about Moral Economics, interviews by a Texan, and by a libertarian

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 First, from NPR radio station KERA for North Texas, the Think talk show podcast (interview by Krys Boyd ): What black markets can teach us ...
Friday, June 5, 2026

Some major themes in Moral Economics (posted by the Next Big Idea Club)

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 The Next Big Idea Club asked me to summarize some of the themes in Moral Economics , and has now published them here: A Nobel Economist Exp...
Thursday, June 4, 2026

A.I. helps re-identify anonymized data-- how it worked in the case of a censured judge

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   Above the Law has the story of how the judge in question was successfully re-identified: Judiciary Tried To Hide ‘Sex In Chambers’ Judge’...
Wednesday, June 3, 2026

About a third of Americans live in states that will have Medical Aid in Dying, come September.

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  The NYT has the story: By September, Nearly a Third of Americans Will Live in States With Legal Aid in Dying Despite widespread support in...
Monday, June 1, 2026

The American Society of Transplantation prepares to consider a pilot study of financial incentives for living organ donation

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 As I prepare to speak later this month at the American Transplant Congress in Boston , I note that  the American Society of Transplantation...