Joe shook off the plague and won a major prize all in one week. In celebration, we debate and discuss the lottery, choosing numbers, and the endowment “effect.” Into the mailbag we go and discuss our Speluncean episodes, an executioner’s privilege, robotic burritos and sandwiches, engineering happiness and social welfare functions, school funding, freedom, bro country, speed trap brief return, Canadian real estate as political barometer, the rougiest judge, knitting, and the Re-Framing.

This show’s links:

Gregory Klass and Kathryn Zeiler, Against Endowment Theory: Experimental Economics and Legal Scholarship
Oral Argument Hymn 1 and Hymn 2
Regina v. Dudley and Stephens (and more about the case)
Robot or Not burritos
Christian List, Social Choice Theory (in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Vox’s The Weeds podcast
Gannon v. State (and Trevor Graff and John Eligon, Court Orders Kansas Legislature to Spend More on Schools)
San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
About bro country
Oral Argument 84: Felker’s Chickens (guest Steve Vladeck)
Steve Vladeck, Vehicle Problems vs. Unusual Vehicles: The Supreme Court’s Bizarre Cert. Grant in Welch
The Oyez podcast feed for 2015 Supreme Court oral argument and the collection of Oyez feeds in iTunes
Josh Blackman and Howard Wasserman, The Process of Marriage Equality