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Taboo Trades Podcast: Truth Bounties with Mike Gilbert and Yonathan Arbel

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My guests today are my UVA Law colleague, Mike Gilbert, and University of Alabama Professor, Yonathan Arbel. We’re discussing their paper, Truth Bounties: A Market Solution to Fake News, forthcoming in the University of North Carolina Law Review. Mike Gilbert is the vice dean and a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School […]

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Book recommendation: The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation by Hagai Boas

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I recently finished The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation, written by the Israeli sociologist Hagai Boas and published by Routledge, and highly recommend it. Hagai is a four-time organ transplant recipient (technically, five, I suppose, since his most recent transplant, in 2020, was of both a kidney and a liver). He is the director of

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Common Law Season 5 Launches with Taboo Trades

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My dean, Risa Goluboff, and colleague, Cathy Hwang, launch the fifth season of the podcast “Common Law” by interviewing me about my courses (including a new course, Blood Feud, taught with Peter Jaworski), my podcast (the Taboo Trades podcast), and my recent paper, “Markets, Repugnance and Externalities,” published in the Journal of Institutional Economics this

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Kidneys For Sale in Iran: Market Design Blog

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Via Al Roth’s Market Design Blog: Just published in Transplant International (which is the journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation), is a paper describing the Iranian market for kidneys in the city of Mashad, and three commentaries on it. Here’s the original paper: Kidneys for Sale: Empirical Evidence From Iran  by Tannaz Moeindarbari and Mehdi

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Book Recommendation: Kidney To Share by Martha Gershun And John D. Lantos

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Over the holidays, I finished Kidney To Share, a new book by Martha Gershun And John D. Lantos published by Cornell University Press and highly recommend it! It’s extremely well-done—informative, funny, thought-provoking. The book alternates between chapters from Martha and John, with Martha taking readers through a personal account of her non-directed kidney donation to

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Repugnance Readings For The New Year

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Happy 2019! Why not start out the new year with a set of readings on repugnance . . . you know you want to.  (They’re readings on repugnance, not repugnant readings!) There is a piece from me, accompanied by excellent commentaries by Harvard law’s Glenn Cohen and the German philosopher, Weyma Lübbe (University of Regensburg). Sadly, all three pieces are behind a paywall.

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