Showing posts with label repugnance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label repugnance. Show all posts
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Tobacco banned in Indian state of Odisha

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 Here's the story from the Times of India, Govt notifies ban on all chewable tobacco, nicotine products | Bhubaneswar News - The Times o...
Monday, January 26, 2026

Repugnance: two overviews (one by humans, one by Ai)

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Here are two overviews of repugnance, one by economists in a forthcoming book chapter, and one from xAi via its large language model, in Gro...
Saturday, January 10, 2026

What to read in 2026: FT recommends Moral Economics (plus blurbs by Milgrom, Wilson and Goldin:)

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 The Financial Times looks into its crystal ball to suggest what books to read in the coming year, organized by the month in which they are ...
Thursday, January 8, 2026

Commercial plasma collection in the US: the Jaworski report for 2025

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 Peter Jaworski , a tireless student of blood donation around the world, has published a report on the plasma industry.  It's full of in...
Monday, January 5, 2026

Prenups: formerly repugnant, now online

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 The New Yorker writes about prenuptial agreements that can be written online, and not just for the wealthy. Why Millennials Love Prenups Lo...
Friday, December 26, 2025

Medical aid in dying to become available in New York State

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 Here's the announcements from the New York State Governor's office: Governor Hochul Reaches Agreement With State Legislature to Pas...
Saturday, December 20, 2025

The market for used underwear, in the journal Genre, sexualité & société

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 The study of repugnant transactions and controversial markets can lead to some strange markets.  In the latest issue of the journal Genre,...
Thursday, December 18, 2025

The national politics of deceased organ donation

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 The U.S. transplant system is relatively open to foreign patients, and the NYT reports with some concern the number of foreign citizens rec...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Abortions in the U.S. since state bans have been enacted

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 It's hard to effectively ban something that is legal in neighboring jurisdictions. The NYT has the story: A Small Illinois City at the ...
Friday, December 5, 2025

Ludwig Amadeus Minelli (5 December 1932 – 29 November 2025), leader of Dignitas assisted suicide organization

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 The Washington Post has the story Ludwig Minelli, founder of leading assisted suicide group, ends his life at 92.  Dignitas, which Mr. Mine...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Are transplants too scarce, or not scarce enough? A surprising debate about India

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 India, now the most populous country in the world, does the third highest number of kidney transplants in the world (although their rate of...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

Funeral expense reimbursement to enhance organ donation and transplantation , by Chan and Sweat

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 It's legal to pay funeral expenses for whole-body donors (for research) but not for organ donors for transplantation.  Here's a cal...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Yuck! and the long journey to a book title

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  As I mentioned in yesterday's post , I'm working on the galleys of my forthcoming book, Moral Economics . This has reminded me o...
Monday, October 27, 2025

New book! Moral Economics: From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work--forthcoming!

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   I have a forthcoming book, (at long last) and it now even has a cover. (Note the halo:)  I'm reading the galleys right now...   Moral...
Monday, October 20, 2025

Do we need to worry that surrogacy will be banned in the US? (by the UN??)

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  Stat News has a call to prevent surrogacy from being banned, following a recent UN resolution to do just that. How to keep commercial sur...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

In-game sports betting is something different

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 The NYT has the story: The Seductive, and Risky, Power of Live Sports Betting In-game betting is predicted to grow to more than $14 billion...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Repugnance and consequence-insensitivity (in connection to opposition to genetically-engineered food)

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 There is a well developed literature on repugnance connected to food, and here is a recent, interesting example that focuses on the relatio...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

How to make a racehorse fast? (a new punchline...)

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  The old punchline is "don't feed him."  The new punchline is "CRISPR." Here's a news story from Nature: First ...
Friday, September 5, 2025

"Dark tourism" as a repugnant market in Germany

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 NPR's Planet money has a story about tourists visiting the site of Hitler's bunker in Berlin, and about "dark tourism" mo...
Monday, September 1, 2025

Demand for surrogacy outstrips supply in England (where commercial surrogacy is illegal)

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  Economics in action. The Guardian has the story: ‘It’s overwhelming’: woman who was UK’s first surrogate closes agency as demand soars Kim...