Alvin Roth

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

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 353 | Alvin Roth on the Economics of Morally Contested Markets · 11 May 2026 podcast

You know, so the Santa Clara County Board of Health has some authority over all the restaurants in my neighborhood.

And that's good because we all agree restaurants should have clean kitchens that don't have rodents in them.

But when I go to the restaurant, I don't inspect the kitchen and they don't invite me to inspect the kitchen.

So it's nice that Santa Clara is doing it now.

You know, there are other ways of doing that.

McDonald's, presumably, you know, they don't want rats in their kitchens either.

And they have some way of trying to get uniform quality across all the franchises.

But, you know, it's very good that Santa Clara County Board of Health looks into kitchens, you know, here in Palo Alto.

Well, I think you have to look at case by case what are the details.

So let's talk a little bit about paternalism, which you brought up, right?

Paternalism itself isn't a terrible word.

Maybe it should be called parentalism.

When we think about children, if you don't supervise your children properly, you might be guilty of neglect, right?

Sometimes your kids...

My kids, you know, might have wanted to do something when they were little now and now it's grandchildren.

You know, but if it's going to make them sleepy or miss school or ill, then they just aren't allowed to do that.

And they're little and it's your job as a parent to take care of your kids.

So behavioral economics is the part of economics that says, you know, not all of us are completely good at thinking.

deciding things in our own best interest.

You know, all of us former children who have had enough birthdays to be legal adults sometimes still eat too much or drink too much or things like that.

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