Friday, July 31, 2009

Assisted suicide, Right to Die in England: new development

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The long discussion in England about the circumstances in which assisted suicide will be prosecuted has moved a step forward with a ruling ...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

Medieval market design

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The International Congress on Medieval Studies has issued a call for papers (posted by Dan Ernst on the Legal History Blog ): "We welc...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Kidney exchange: moving towards a national program

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Kidney exchange , which works best with a thick market (lots of patient-donor pairs), is now moving towards experimenting with a national ma...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Assisted suicide in England and Switzerland, continued

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The British press continues to follow British citizens who choose to end their lives in Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal. (In Br...
Monday, July 27, 2009

Corruption and kidneys in New Jersey and Brooklyn

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The NY Times reports on a corruption investigation resulting in 44 arrests in New Jersey and Brooklyn: In New Jersey Case, Nervous Jokes and...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

House flipping fraud in Florida

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I received the following email from Eric Budish , the Chicago market designer: "I came across a neat investigative journalism feature o...
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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Is fish-tossing repugnant?

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Fishmongers in Seattle throw dead fish around the market, and it has apparently become not just a way of handling fish for sale, but a form ...
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Friday, July 24, 2009

Fly fishing

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I spent last weekend in Jackson Hole Wyoming at a transplant conference . My friend Owen Phillips , the U. of Wyoming experimental economis...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Regulatory capture in French electricity market

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David Jolly reports in the NY Times: France Resists a Power-Monitoring Business "Two weeks ago, the French Energy Regulatory Commission...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Taxing a repugnant transaction, medical marijuana version

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Steve Levitt's post When Taxpayers Welcome Taxes , is about a medical marijuana provider who lobbied to have his business taxed. Levitt...

Universities and price discrimination

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According to Yale's president Richard Levin ( interviewed in the WSJ ), elite universities are more than ever able to charge different p...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Gambling, in Russia

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Gambling is sometimes regarded as a repugnant transaction, and sometimes as a tax on the willing. In Russia the pendulum has swung both ways...
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Monday, July 20, 2009

Credit markets, old and new: The Receivables Exchange

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The WSJ reports CIT's Woes Prompt Surge In Activity At Receivables Exchange . "The turmoil surrounding finance giant CIT Group Inc....
Sunday, July 19, 2009

Same sex marriage divides the Anglican Communion

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Among American Episcopalians, and in the Anglican Communion worldwide, the issue of gay marriage has involved a contentious debate on what s...
Saturday, July 18, 2009

Eugene Volokh on kidney transplantation and the law

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Volokh writes : "Should a Parent Be Required To Donate a Kidney to a Child Who Needs a Life-Saving Transplant?" "A commenter ...
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Friday, July 17, 2009

Organ tranplants and law in Japan

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Japanese transplant law and practice are in flux. Recent news stories convey different parts of the story. Japan’s Parliament Eases Rules on...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

New Key Opinion Leaders in Transplantation

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I'll be spending this weekend in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, participating in an unfamiliar ritual. The Transplantation Society introduces wh...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

China outlaws shock treatment for uncontrollable urge to blog

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Those of you reading this will be glad to know China bans electric shock therapy for internet addicts "China has outlawed the use of el...

Surrogate motherhood continued: where did I come from?

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As the market for surrogate wombs becomes more usual, and as the kids grow up, some new twists are added to the question "where did I c...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

The secondary ticket industry (scalping, to you)

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The "secondary ticket industry" has a trade show, meeting tomorrow in Las Vegas, about which they say: " Ticket Summit is the...
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