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Plasma with Peter Jaworski

Kimberly D Krawiec Season 1 Episode 1

Peter makes the case for paid plasma. I commit basketball treason

Peter Jaworski is is an Associate Teaching Professor in Strategy, Ethics, Economics and Public Policy at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. He has published in Ethics, Philosophical Studies, the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, and the Journal of Business Ethics, among others.

Helpful links for this podcast:
1. Peter Jaworski, Bloody Well Pay Them: The Case for Voluntary Remunerated Plasma Collections, https://www.niskanencenter.org/bloody-well-pay-them-the-case-for-voluntary-remunerated-plasma-collections/
2. English, William and Jaworski, Peter M., The Introduction of Paid Plasma in Canada and the U.S. Has Not Decreased Unpaid Blood Donations (July 15, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3653432 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3653432
3. Peter M. Jaworski, "Not compensating Canadian blood plasma donors means potentially risky reliance on foreign plasma", The Conversationhttps://theconversation.com/not-compensating-canadian-blood-plasma-donors-means-potentially-risky-reliance-on-foreign-plasma-143970
4. Peter M. Jaworski, "Canada should not be spending $1 billion on plasma imports; it should be producing enough to export, and for that, we need to pay Canadian donors", Policy Options: https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/august-2020/why-isnt-canada-a-net-contributor-to-the-global-plasma-supply/

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