# Professor Steven Blader weighs in on the resale of expensive concert tickets

1 Faculty News July 6, 2015 ![Chicago Tribune logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_036769.gif?itok=8DjrVWuj)>

Excerpt from [Chicago Tribune](http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-grateful-dead-ticket-resale-and-the-death-of-live-music-20150625-column.html#page=1) -- "[Steven Blader](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/steven-blader), an associate professor who studies fairness at New York University's business school, said: 'While there is nothing inherently wrong with someone wanting to make money off a commodity that others want, maybe some tickets do change the equation. Maybe some require an assumption that a moral obligation is attached? It's tricky, but the overall implications should give pause. You may not be forcing anyone to buy a ticket, but at what point are shows being played just for wealthy people? I think it's legal, I can probably convince myself a large profit on a ticket is even moral, but I have a harder time convincing myself that this kind of thing is good for the broader goal of music being accessible to all walks of society.'"

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