Alvin Roth

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

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I'll raise you one.

You know, buy them to eat them.

Yeah, I think we don't want that.

And there are lots of laws about adoption and particularly international adoption.

So adoption is expensive.

If you want to adopt a baby from overseas, you need to jump through many hoops to show that you're a qualified adoption person.

And it's expensive.

You'll need lawyers.

You'll need international travel.

But you can't pay the birth mother for the baby.

Okay.

So that's a law that we have pretty much everywhere.

There's a Hague Convention on that.

I don't know if the U.S.

is a signatory, but it's also illegal in the U.S.

to pay the birth mother for the baby.

Now, there are a bunch of transactions that become morally contested when money is added to them that aren't otherwise morally contested.

So we've already talked about kidney donation.

Surrogacy is another good one.

In California and in most of the U.S., it's now legal to pay someone to bear a child for you.

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