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#488 Erik Kimbrough: Norms, Institutions, Impersonal Exchange, Specialization, and Organ Donation

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How to Increase the Supply of Organs for Transplants

Theory of mind has also something to do with the development of norms and institutions right? Absolutely yeah I mean I think so I'm reading Michael Tomacello's book becoming human right now. He is talking about how theory of mind is necessary for kind of bilateral personal interactions, he says. So instead of me asking how you would feel I ask myself how an abstract person whose views represent sort of the sum of the moral judgments of everyone that I've been or maybe not the average. Portugal is taking advantage of this insight that actually you know people call it default bias or status quo bias or whatever you want to call it but that they have opt-out organ donation system where you are the

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