Kim Krawiec, Author at The Faculty Lounge

Taboo Trades: Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski on Markets Without Limits

If you may do something for free, is there always some way you may do it for money? Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski join me on Taboo Trades to discuss…

Kim Krawiec September 28, 2026No Comments

Taboo Trades: June Carbone on The Crisis of Boys and Men

Academic collaborations sometimes begin in disagreement. June Carbone and Clare Huntington approached the legal rights of unmarried fathers from different perspectives, but their debate ultimately produced “Fatherhood, Family Law, and…

Kim Krawiec September 16, 2026No Comments

Taboo Trades Podcast: Welcome to Season 7!

We're baaaack! With season 7 of the Taboo Trades podcast. Meet the 2026 UVA Law student co-hosts in our welcome episode.

Kim Krawiec September 5, 2026No Comments

This Week’s Substack: Surrogacy Is Complicated

Gestational-surrogacy agreements commonly address termination and selective reduction in advance; professional guidance recommends doing so. But advance agreement doesn't eliminate conflict when the parties later disagree. A court wouldn't compel…

Kim Krawiec August 31, 2026No Comments

When Surrogacy Became A National Security Threat: New Substack Post

International surrogacy appears to constitute only a small and poorly measured share of American surrogacy births—and an even smaller share of the births at the center of the national birthright-citizenship…

Kim Krawiec July 27, 2026No Comments

Give Blood, Get Stuff: Just Don’t Call It Payment

Blood is supposed to be given, not sold. That is the organizing ideal behind the World Health Organization’s push for “100% voluntary, nonremunerated” blood donation. But real-world blood systems are…

Kim Krawiec July 8, 2026No Comments

New Paper: Voluntary, Unpaid, and Handsomely Rewarded

Over at his Market Design blog, Al Roth discusses our recent paper, “Voluntary, Unpaid, and Handsomely Rewarded: Donor Benefits in the World's Whole-Blood Systems,” which we recently posted to SSRN.…

Kim Krawiec July 3, 2026No Comments

The Shadow Market for Sperm

Women shut out of fertility treatment are turning to social media for sperm. One BBC team paid £100 for a sample that arrived chilled, packed beside frozen tomato passata. My…

Kim Krawiec June 27, 2026No Comments

New on Substack: Economists, Kidneys, and the Politics of Payment

A recent Chicago Booth survey asked economists about living-donor kidney transplantation. The pattern is revealing: support is strongest around kidney exchange, remains broad for structured public donor benefits, and becomes…

Kim Krawiec June 1, 2026No Comments

What Is A Kidney Worth?

The Hopkins Business of Health Initiative (HBHI) has published a summary and synthesis (link here) of the debate I previously discussed (here and here), with the full recording embedded and…

Kim Krawiec May 28, 2026No Comments