Posts by Kim Krawiec

This long-awaited paper from Kessler and Roth was just published last week. As Roth notes, they began work on the project in 2010, when Kessler was "just a kid." In…

The new Research Handbook on the Philosophy of Contract Law, edited by Mindy Chen-Wishart and Prince Saprai, and published by Edward Elgar Publishing is now out. From the publisher: With…

The Guardian has the news in this story: ‘Medical calamity’: dozens of Dutch sperm donors fathered at least 25 children. (HT: Al Roth's Market Design Blog) According to the article:…

In the course of preparing remarks for an upcoming roundtable, I was searching back through my old posts and came across this still-relevant blast from the past, How Is An…

The latest black market body parts scandal is here. Admittedly it's not the body parts use case I generally imagine when it comes to black market biological material:  A former…

Is here, via Al Roth. See my prior discussion here.  More on medical aid in dying[image or embed]— Kim Krawiec (@kimkrawiec.bsky.social) April 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM

The House Ways and Means Committee has published a Request for Information on the Activities of Tax-Exempt Organ Procurement Organizations. The screenshot below of page 3 is probably enough for…

I asked ChatGPT to describe what it knows about me from conversations so far. The results were both fawning (which I appreciate -- flattery will get you everywhere!) and hilarious.…

Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer have a guest opinion piece in Monday's New York Times, "There’s a Lesson to Learn From Daniel Kahneman’s Death:" On March 19, 2024, we…

Science has the story, and Al Roth comments.  When I present papers on transplantation and the kidney shortage (like this one), I often get questions about the future of xenotransplantation,…