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.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

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

Again, you know, you have to think it's one thing to say we won't have any of something and it's another thing to actually not have any of it.

Well, I think I say that in many respects.

I think that, again, you know, the laws against surrogacy are designed to protect the vulnerable.

And, you know, when you read the French judicial opinions, they say, we understand that there are people who would like to have the help of a surrogate to start their family.

And we understand there are people who would like to help them and bear a baby in return for being paid.

But this is wrong and we don't do wrong things in France.

So they're protecting people against their own

judgment of a transaction they'd like to do.

Nevertheless, there are babies and there's no one more vulnerable than a baby.

So they have to allow adoptions.

They could say, eat the baby, but they don't.

So I think that when we make policies, we have to think not just about what our intentions are.

There should be no heroin addict.

We have to also think what the consequences are.

That's what I talk about.

Economists deal in tradeoffs.

And I think that a lot of moral contests don't deal in tradeoffs.

Well, medical care is a market, right?

I mean, there may be third-party payers, but mostly we purchase medical care.

So, remember, I'm prepared to have a much broader definition of markets that includes kidney exchange where you don't pay the donors.

Showing 581–600 of 677 · page 30 of 34