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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…
Posted by 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.…
Posted by Kim Krawiec July 3, 2026No Comments

Donation, Compensation, and the Moral Grammar of Biological Materials

Debates over paid plasma donation tend to cycle through familiar frames: altruistic gift, moral corruption, or exploitation of the vulnerable. This post steps back and asks a different question: what…
Posted by Kim Krawiec January 21, 2026No Comments

Taboo and Repugnant Roundup (Week of 1/12/26)

This week’s roundup spans symbolic honors, moral limits of markets, and biomedical supply chains. It opens with the Nobel Committee’s statement reaffirming the inalienability of the Nobel Prize after Trump-related…
Posted by Kim Krawiec January 12, 2026No Comments

Plasma, Incentives, and Global Markets

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