Kerre McIvor over on Newstalk had a bit of a go at me on the issue of compensating plasma donors . She worried about that facilities paying...

Georgetown's Peter Jaworski's produced an excellent report  on the need for compensation for blood plasma donors. The report was rel...

Talk about an elephant in the room. Radio New Zealand's story on unregulated informal sperm donor networks is a great chronicle of wh...

It is illegal to pay organ donors for their gift. Economists can easily explain the consequences: at a price of zero, you have a big shortag...

I'm really excited about this one. Last year, Chris Bishop's Member's Bill on compensation for live organ donors was drawn fr...

Here's the Adam Smith Institute on New Zealand's sperm shortage . The world simply will not make sense if you do not grasp the fir...

Man, the snake-oil salesmen of the 1800s had nothing on today's inequality campaigners. Turns out that inequality's to blame for New...

If I ever suffer massive brain trauma effectively killing me  but not affecting the meat that carries me , I totally consent to being a dono...

We this week released Elisabeth Prasad's report running some of the numbers on whether compensating live kidney donors makes sense . She...

Peter Singer argues that not only do we have a moral duty to be organ donors, we should also consider incentives for donation. One of the...

I chatted yesterday with Sean Plunkett at RadioLive about compensation for live organ donors. My former student Liz Prasad showed that payin...

New Zealand's organ donor service doesn't seem to like Israel's priority system. I was on with Paul Henry this morning talk...

Supply curves slope up, even for blood. Sydney's Robert Slonim will be speaking at Canterbury on the use of economic incentives to im...

Free riding kills voluntary contributions in public good games. When individuals see that free-riders are able to do well, and where there...

Whenever I watch Finn's quest to implement Pareto-improving moves despite the incompatibility of others' wants and the downright mi...

It's hard to tell what's a nudge. Recall the basic thesis of Thaler and Sunstein's libertarian paternalism: the choice of defa...

Today's afternoon news roundup. Item the first: NZ's organ donor rate remains low ; the kidney waiting list in particular remains ...

I love the contrast between Steve Landsburg and Virginia Postrel on the Roth Nobel. They're both completely right. Says Landsburg : ...

I had an awfully fun time a few weeks back guest-lecturing in an honours health ethics course in  Canterbury's Health Sciences programme...

The late-night NZ-time twitter feed occasionally brings American morning delights. Tonight, it's the new NBER working papers. In the que...