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
• eggs-a-mini-symposium.html">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