Alvin Roth
speaker
677 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 11 May
Alvin Roth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So on the one hand, there are people who think of
In vitro fertilization is life-giving, and it's how they got their children or how they came to be born themselves.
And on the other hand, you think of there are people who think it's murder.
So people can have really strong opinions of praise and of condemnation for transactions that happen millions of times.
Let's say morally contested rather than morally questionable because the people on each side of these arguments don't think there's any question at all.
So to start with one that is often not thought of as a market but is a matching market, of course, same-sex marriage.
Two people want to marry each other and other people think that shouldn't be allowed.
That's one of these transactions that doesn't apparently harm the people who object to it because you can't even tell if people are married if they don't tell you.
That's why people wear wedding rings to tell you that they're married.
Otherwise, it's not apparent.
So that's something that for centuries was...
Not common at all.
It's certainly not legally recognized anywhere.
And now it's recognized in more and more places.
But it's still controversial.
Let me segue.
Let me go back and forth.
Abortion.
is something that in the United States was legally banned in most places in the United States before the 1970s.
But Roe v. Wade made it a right of women to be able to choose whether to terminate a pregnancy.
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