Taboo Trades

Nico and Mario discuss their research on blood donation and attitudes toward taboo trades. I fail at zoom.  Mario Macis is a Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. His research interests include pro-social behavior, morally controversial transactions, global health, experimental economics, development economics, and labor economics.  Nico Lacetera is a Professor of Strategi...

Nancy discusses the limits of consent. I contemplate putting silicone horns on my head. Nancy Kim is the ProFlowers Distinguished Professor of Internet Studies at California Western School of Law and visiting Professor, Rady School of Management at UC San Diego. Professor Kim is a former chair of both the section on Commercial and Related Consumer Law and the section on Contracts of the Associatio...

Josh makes the case for paying kidney donors and infecting people with Covid-19. We both admit to being bad at big law. Josh Morrison is the founder of three nonprofit organizations: Waitlist Zero , which envisions an America where no one dies because of a shortage of transplantable kidneys; the Rikers Debate Project , which teaches debate to formerly incarcerated students in six states; and 1 Day...

Peter makes the case for paid plasma. I commit basketball treason Peter Jaworski is is an Associate Teaching Professor in Strategy, Ethics, Economics and Public Policy at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. He has published in Ethics , Philosophical Studies , the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence , and the Journal of Business Ethics , among others. Helpful links for this...