Market design and matching have been especially important for markets in which the use of money is viewed as repugnant or distasteful. This article employs the example of kidney exchange, with a particular focus on a new form, global kidney exchange (GKE), to highlight the manner by which repugnance and the law limit exchange and create scarcity. Yet it also opens the door to innovation that, at each stage of market development, prompts new repugnance concerns and initiates a renegotiation of legal rules, social norms, and institutional barriers.
President Joe Biden promised during his State of the Union address on March 7, 2024, that he would make the right to get an abortion a federal law.
“If...
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The SEC mandates that public companies assess new information that changes the risks that they face and disclose these if there has been a “material”...
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The Political Language of Parental Rights: Abortion, Gender-Affirming Care, and Critical Race Theory
This Article explores how the rhetoric of parental rights has been deployed to override minors’ access to abortion, gender-affirming care, and...
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Kidneys for Sale: Empirical Evidence From Iran by Moeindarbari T and Feizi M (2022). Transpl Int 35:10178. doi: https://doi.org...