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.
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And you don't worry what I'm going to do with them when I get them.
We don't care who we're dealing with.
But that's, as you say, just the opposite of how you organize a podcast where you care who you're speaking to.
Maybe.
You might see whether it benefited your listeners.
Well, there are lots of individual ways it could happen.
There are some general theories as well.
We talk about markets not working well for public goods, right?
So if I make some valuable commodity, but a byproduct of my manufacturing process is that I pollute the air and the water, that's often not priced into what I'm selling, but I'm harming people.
I'm creating negative externalities.
I'm harming people external to the transaction.
And so that's something that markets can't always do, and we try to fix them with regulations and taxes and different ways of trying to fix them.
But what I talk about often is not what's traditionally called market failure, but what's called marketplace failure.
So what makes a market like Uber work well?
Well, let's think about Uber for a minute in a market design sense.
You know, the internet made all sorts of markets possible, like eBay and maybe Airbnb, although it came much later.
But it didn't make Uber possible because Uber had to wait for smartphones and global positioning satellites because Uber needs to know where you are.
And they need to know where the cars are.
But as a result, Uber has a very simple sort of problem because they pretty much already know what you want.
You want a car to arrive soon.
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