Alvin Roth

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677 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 11 May

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decriminalized without treatment.

So we've learned the hard things, but these are things that can be experimented with.

We can gather evidence on what works and, you know, maybe they have a plan in Switzerland that's working better than the plan we have in the U.S.

and we should be thinking about things like that.

Absolutely.

So, so again, I'm a market designer.

And one of the first things you learn when you try to look into different markets and marketplaces is that the details matter.

Uh, you know, Uber is already, we talked about Uber is different than Airbnb.

They have to organize their market differently.

And the solution to, you know, drug addiction, which I don't have to offer you, uh, is going to be different than the solution to, uh,

whether we should allow in vitro fertilization, which we do in the United States, but it's not legal everywhere, but it's very hard to ban, right?

So the other thing is, if something is legal in one jurisdiction,

while illegal in others, people travel to where it's legal, right?

So there's fertility tourism.

And when I talk about that, that touches on some of the most deeply felt opinions that people have.

So a good example, IVF, in vitro fertilization, is a good example because it was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2010.

A guy named Robert Edwards got a Nobel Prize at a time when

by 2010, millions of children had already been born by IVF and millions more have been.

But the opposition to IVF has to do with the fact that multiple embryos are created and not all are used.

And if you think that the embryo is a living person, then you think of IVF as committing a massacre.

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