Alvin Roth

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

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The price is zero.

You can't be paid for giving a kidney, although it's a great thing.

You can save the life of someone who you love.

And so the question is how to increase the supply because millions of people around the world die without a

And of course, well, and it turns out,

Paying a donor for a kidney is against the law almost everywhere, with a single exception, which is the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Well, I've read the Shia fatwas, the religious rulings that allow it.

And they just say, you know, it's not so bad.

It saves a life.

I mean, saving a life is very important.

I mean, the first kidney transplant is only from the 1950s, so kidney transplantation is a very modern thing.

It's not biblical or Quranic.

But yeah, they just didn't see it to be a big problem.

And indeed, it's not a big problem in Iran, apparently.

They have other big problems, I understand.

Yeah.

Why shouldn't you?

Okay.

So I think there are, broadly speaking, two arguments.

One is it's simply wrong.

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