Alvin Roth

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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.

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It does all the things that the prohibitionists worried about.

But it turns out prohibition didn't prevent those things.

There was a lot of alcohol during prohibition and a lot of crime.

And the one thing that clearly results from legal markets is you can no longer buy moonshine whiskey from gangsters.

They've been out-competed by the legal market.

So in the 1920s, we passed a constitutional amendment that forbid most sales of alcohol, alcoholic beverages.

A dozen years later, we repealed it.

And the reason was prohibition didn't actually limit consumption of alcohol by all that much.

And it gave rise to organized crime.

Now, having repealed prohibition, we now have legal markets for alcohol.

That doesn't mean the problems of alcohol went away, right?

There's still alcoholism.

They're still driving under the influence.

But one thing you can't do anymore is buy moonshine whiskey from gangsters, right?

We've taken a lot of the crime out of alcohol.

We still have alcoholism.

And the birth of Alcoholics Anonymous came just around the time of the repeal of prohibition.

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