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

So among the strong opponents is the Catholic Church.

And the governor of New York is a committed Catholic lady.

And she talked a little bit publicly about the struggle she had in approving this.

But what she said is she was aware of some extremely painful, extended, medicalized deaths.

And it would have been

Better if New York State had medical aid in dying.

It is.

I mean, now now we have two Supreme Court justices presently, Gorsuch and Amy Cody Barron, who have written in the past before they were justices about their opposition to medical aid and dying.

So I wouldn't be surprised if if like abortion, it comes again before the Supreme Court.

Well, certainly we should be more aware.

I think the big lesson, which maybe we've already touched on, is that

To work well, markets need social support, but so do bans on markets.

So the example I gave you at the beginning of our chat was, why is it easy to buy drugs, but hard to hire a hitman?

And our laws are the same.

If we catch drug dealers or hitmen, we put them away for a long time.

But it's working for hitmen.

There's very little market for commercial killing.

So that's one where we should keep it up.

We are successfully deterring hitmen by putting them in jail when we catch them, and they're

clients, let's keep doing it.

Showing 621–640 of 677 · page 32 of 34