Showing posts with label repugnance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label repugnance. Show all posts
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...
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...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

The UN General Assembly issues a call for surrogacy to be outlawed

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 A growing number of families are formed by gestational surrogacy, in which a woman bears a child for another couple.  Surrogacy is legal th...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Resuscitation theater ("slow codes"), and Medical Aid in Dying

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 Here's an article pointing out that "slow codes" often constitute resuscitation theater, i.e. they are a way to follow bureau...
Sunday, August 17, 2025

Cat food, for big cats in zoos (you could call it pet food)

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 Zoos are complicated. Here's the story from NPR: A zoo in Denmark asked patrons to donate their pets. Not as attractions, but for food ...
Saturday, August 9, 2025

Withdrawals from deceased donor registries

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The NYT is standing by its recent stories on deceased organ donation. In the meantime  Newsweek has this story about people who have had sec...
Friday, August 1, 2025

US Waitlist Registrants who Received Transplantation Abroad

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 Here's a recent article about patients waiting for a deceased-donor organ transplant in the U.S. who (instead) received one overseas (a...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Cellular agriculture points the way to removing killing from the food chain

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Here's a story from the Washington Post about growing fish-flesh and meat from cells in a lab. The story emphasizes sustainability, but ...
Sunday, July 13, 2025

The repugnance of slavery (1847)--an open letter

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  The civil war was preceded by a schism among Northern and Southern Baptists over the institution of slavery.  The recent rediscovery of a...