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’s crummy cuisine are discussed in Paul Krugman, “Supply, Demand and English Food,” Fortune, July 1988. International comparisons of the share of income devoted to food, the price elasticity of food demand, and preferences for treating farm animals humanely are drawn from the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (www.ers.usda.gov/Data/InternationalFood-Demand/Index.asp?view=PEF#IFD, accessed 07/18/2010); David Dickinson and DeeVon Bailey, “Experimental Evidence on Willingness to Pay for Red Meat Traceability in the United States, Canada, the U.K. and Japan,” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Vol. 37, No. 3. December 2005, pp. 537-548; and World Values Survey, average of first four waves: 1981-2000 (www.wvsevsdb.com/wvs/WVSAnalizeSample.jsp, accessed 07/18/2010). The analysis of the relationship between the price of labor and the availability of services is in Robert Lipsey and Birgitta Swedenborg, “High-Price and Low-Price Countries: Causes and Consequences of Product Price Differences Across Countries,” University of Pennsylvania Workshop Presentation, 2008; Robert Lipsey and Birgitta Swedenborg, “Explaining Product Price Differences Across Countries,” NBER Working Paper, July 2007; and Robert Lipsey and Birgitta Swedenborg, “Wage Dispersion and Country Price Levels,” NBER Working Paper, 1997. The commentary on the different views on fairness and luck in Europe and the United States draws from Roland Benabou and Jean Tirole, “Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics,” NBER Working Paper, March 2005; and World Values Survey, 2005-2008 wave (http://www.wvsevsdb.com/wvs/WVSAnalizeStudy.jsp, accessed 08/09/2010). The discussion on racial diversity and support for redistributive policies draws from William Julius Wilson, When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor (New York: Vintage Books, 1997), p. 202. Data on tipping patterns in the United States come from Daniel Kahneman, Jack Knetsch, and Richard Thaler, “Fairness as a Constraint on Profit Seeking: Entitlements in the Market,” American Economic Review, Vol. 76, September 1986, pp. 728-741; and Michael Lynn, “Tipping in Restaurants and Around the Globe: An Interdisciplinary Review,” in Morris Altman, ed., Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics, Foundations and Developments (Armonk, N.Y.: M .E. Sharpe Publishers, 2006), pp. 626-643.

173-177 The Price of Repugnance: Discussion on different attitudes about eating horse fillet are drawn from Alvin Roth, “Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 21, No. 3, Summer 2007, pp. 37-58; maville.com, Caen et ça region (at www.caen.maville.com/actu/actudet_-Cyril-ouvre-une-boucherie-chevaline-boulevard-Leroy-_loc-822159_actu.htm, accessed 07/18/2010); and Tara Burghart, “Last US Horse Slaughterhouse to Close,” Huffington Post, June 29, 2007 (www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070629/horse-slaughter/#, accessed 07/18/2010). The discussion about attitudes toward egg donations draws from the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, “Financial Compensation of Oocyte Donors,” Fertility and Sterility, Vol. 88, No. 2, August 2007, pp. 305-309; David Tuller, “Payment Offers to Egg Donors Prompt Scrutiny,” New York Times, May 10, 2010; United Kingdom Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority, “Egg Donation and Egg Sharing” (at www.hfea.gov.uk/egg-donation-and-egg-sharing.html. , accessed 07/18/2010); and Alvin Roth, op. cit. The discussion about opposition to dwarf tossing in France comes from Alvin Roth, op. cit. Brigitte Bardot’s campaign against Koreans’ taste for dog meat is discussed in William Saletan, “Wok the Dog,” Slate, January 16, 2002. Data on kidney transplants are found in Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (at www.ustransplant.org/csr/current/nationalViewer.aspx?o=KI, accessed 07/18/2010). The discussion on how kidney sales would increase the supply of kidneys for transplant draws from Gary S. Becker and Julio Jorge Elías, “Introducing Incentives in the Market for Live and

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