Thursday, June 11, 2026

Euthanasia and hospice care for pets

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Medical aid in dying and hospice care are now available for pets too.   The New Yorker has the story: When Should You Say Goodbye to a Pet? ...
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...
Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Privacy and prices: will A.I. accelerate surveillance pricing?

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If A.I. assisted "surveillance pricing" is going to identify you as a high willingness-to-pay consumer, maybe it will be a good id...
Monday, June 8, 2026

Law grads are taking multiple judicial clerkships

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 Here's a paper that points to the increasingly common practice of law grads taking multiple consecutive clerkships. George, Tracey E. a...
Sunday, June 7, 2026

Marital sorting by income and education--a marriage squeeze for women who don't attend college

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 More American women than men now attend college, and this has created a marriage squeeze for women who don't attend college, as the hig...
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...
Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Lethal strikes without human approval : military AI without a human in the loop

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 The Financial Times has the story (the explanation quoted below reflects the clarity of the reasoning): UK military looks at allowing letha...
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...
Sunday, May 31, 2026

"In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue." JQ Wilson

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    Here's a photo from the lobby of the American Enterprise Institute, which I visited as part of my recent book tour.  It seems partic...
Saturday, May 30, 2026

Mary Childs, formerly of Planet Money, has a new podcast, called Mary in America (on which we talk about Moral Economics)

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  Mary Childs , formerly of Planet Money, has a new podcast, called Mary in America . I was the guest on her first interview:  Organs, Sex W...
Friday, May 29, 2026

China is smoking

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  The NYT has the story: Xi Jinping Quit Smoking. China Still Cannot. China’s tobacco monopoly has become so financially vital to the govern...
Thursday, May 28, 2026

"How Moral Panic Creates Black Markets," interview by Nick Gillespie about Moral Economics

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Nick Gillespie, from Reason Magazine,  interviews me about " How Moral Panic Creates Black Markets " "Nobel Prize-winning eco...