'The Ethicist:' Ticket Re-Sales

NPR | By Howard Berkes,

Randy Cohen

Published April 4, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST

NPR's Howard Berkes and New York Times Magazine ethicist Randy Cohen discuss the dilemma of William Gooch of South Holland, Illinois. He got lucky enough to win a lottery to purchase hard-to-get baseball tickets. He wonders whether it's right to sell a ticket to his friend for more than face value.

Howard Berkes

Howard Berkes is a correspondent for the NPR Investigations Unit.

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Randy Cohen

Randy Cohen was born in Charleston, S.C., and raised in Reading, Pa. He attended graduate school at the California Institute of the Arts as a music major studying composition.

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