Alvin Roth
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677 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 11 May
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And then recently, the Doe decision reversed that.
Concurring opinion to the Doe decision, Justice Thomas said the court should also reconsider the mistakes it had made about same-sex marriage, about consensual sex between adults, and about contraception.
I remember that.
Yeah.
So some of these controversies that we think of as long ago resolved are still simmering under the surface or not so under the surface.
So those are transactions that have gone through the courts.
In the United States, many controversial markets often make their way to the Supreme Court.
Yeah.
So the way I got into the discussion of controversial markets was thinking about kidney transplantation.
So right now in the United States, there are 500,000 people, half a million people on dialysis.
And there are about 90,000 people on the waiting list for a kidney transplant.
But we only do fewer than 30,000 kidney transplants a year.
So most people who...
could have longer, healthier lives with a kidney transplant will die without getting one, okay?
Now, it turns out you can get a kidney not just from a deceased donor, but from a living donor because healthy people have two kidneys and can remain healthy with one.
So my late colleague, Gary Becker, who had a Nobel Prize in economics, he used to say to me, there's no shortage of kidneys, there's a surplus, everyone has two.
The problem is we don't let prices
adjust the supply.
And indeed, it's against the law to pay someone to be a kidney donor.
So we have about 7,000 living kidney donors a year, but the law requires the kidney to be a gift.
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