Showing posts with label repugnance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label repugnance. Show all posts
Monday, October 26, 2026

Brocher conference on boundaries for incentives in organ donation Oct 27-29 in Geneva

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  I'm on my way to the Brocher Foundation, near Geneva, for a conference organized by Swisstransplant (SWT) and the Declaration of Istan...
Friday, October 23, 2026

"I'm more worried about democracy than artificial intelligence": Italian press on Moral Economics in advance of the International Festival of Economics

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In the run-up to the  International Festival of Economics in Turin starting today, Vanity Fair in Italy publishes an interview with me under...
Monday, October 12, 2026

The once and future market for prostitution in Rhode Island

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  Kim Krawiec , the great legal scholar of repugnant transactions, has written that rare (almost never seen) book review that extends the em...
Sunday, October 11, 2026

Canada tweaks its Medical Aid in Dying law

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 Canada has reversed its plan to expand access to medical aid in dying to people with only psychiatric illnesses, after a long controversy (...
Wednesday, October 7, 2026

The first 100 cases of organ donation after euthanasia in the Netherlands

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 Here's a controversial market with something for everyone to argue about: organ donation after euthanasia, including psychiatric patien...
Monday, September 28, 2026

Ukraine weighs legalizing pornography to raise tax revenue and buy drones

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 Here's a story from the WaPo whose headline already conveys a lot about the economics of tradeoffs: Ukraine weighs legalizing pornograp...
Saturday, September 26, 2026

Organ trafficking research

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 Frederike Ambagtsheer  is the principal investigator of a Dutch project conducting  organ trafficking research , whose website  discusses t...
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:     ...
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...
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, 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...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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...