One of the defining features of modern social science and economics in particular is the hard break it posits between everyday and scientific knowledge. French philosophers have called this characteristic the epistemological break. One of the key consequences of this break is that scientists...

Market exchanges are widely believed to rely on an overlap of interest, this paper argues that many market exchanges actually rely on a broader agreement between buyer and seller. The broader agreement includes the moral justification of the exchange and the associated norms of propriety. To...

Why is surrogacy enforceable in some of the US jurisdictions and not in others? In what way does the enforcement of surrogate motherhood contracts effect the number of exchanges between intended parents and surrogate mothers? Throughout the last two decades of the twentieth century, public...