Psst, do you want to buy a kidney? How about a human egg, or a baby? We talk about taboo markets and tragic choice with Kim Krawiec. Topics range from egg “donation” to kidney transplants, altruism, reference transactions, military service, sex, and more. How do we allocate scarce goods when enough of us just don’t believe the goods should be traded like loaves of bread? Program note: We failed to ask Kim whether Joe is monstrous on account of his views on speed trap norms. Our apologies to the listeners and to Kim.

This show’s links:


Kim Krawiec’s faculty profile and writing
Oral Argument Episode 14: The Astronaut’s Hair, with Lisa Milot
The Faculty Lounge blog
Taxing Eggs, a mini-symposium on the Faculty Lounge blog
Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer, Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States
Viviana A. Zelizer, Pricing the Priceless Child
Viviana A. Zelizer, The Price and Value of Children: The Case of Children’s Insurance
Kimberly Krawiec, Price and Pretense in the Baby Market
Kimberly Krawiec, A Woman’s Worth
Margaret Jane Radin, Contested Commodities
Richard Posner, The Regulation of the Market in Adoptions
Kimberly Krawiec, Kamakahi v. ASRM: The Egg Donor Price Fixing Litigation
Philip Cook and Kimberly Krawiec, A Primer on Kidney Transplantation: Anatomy of the Shortage
Wikipedia on the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984
Kieran Healy and Kimberly Krawiec, Custom, Contract, and Kidney Exchange
Show Me the Money: Making Markets in Forbidden Exchange, an issue of Law and Contemporary Problems
Kimberly Krawiec, Foreword to Show Me the Money: Making Markets in Forbidden Exchange
Guido Calabresi and Philip Bobbitt, Tragic Choices
Special Guest: Kimberly Krawiec.