Podcast & Media

Public scholarship

Bringing the study of taboo and repugnant markets to a wider audience — on the podcast, on Substack, and in the press.

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Podcast · Host & creator · 2020–present

Taboo Trades

A podcast about things we aren’t supposed to trade… but do anyway. Each season brings together scholars, practitioners, and students to argue about the moral limits of markets — organs and blood, sex and reproduction, and the many exchanges that make us uneasy.

Newsletter · 2025–present

Kimberly Krawiec’s Substack

Public-facing essays and roundups on taboo markets and the law-and-policy debates that surround them — from kidney markets to marijuana taxes. Free to read and subscribe.

More public writing

Selected op-eds & press

See also her University of Virginia faculty profile.