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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So their job is mostly to match you to the closest driver.
But Airbnb has a very different problem.
They can't.
automatically tell what kind of apartment you want.
They have to elicit your preferences.
They have to show you pictures of the living room and the view from the bedroom and convince you that this would be an apartment you would like.
The form of these markets is very different from each other and they can fail differently.
Yes.
So the title of my book is Moral Economics, and it's about controversial markets.
And the reason I wrote it – I mean, let me take a step back and tell you that I wrote a previous book called Who Gets What and Why in 2015 that came out.
And that was an optimistic book about market design.
And it said – along the lines we've been talking about, it said lots of markets have failures or marketplace failures.
They're not working well.
They're broken.
But –
sometimes we can fix them.
And I talked about markets that I'd been involved in where we'd been able to redesign or design new markets.
But it turns out that there are lots of markets that aren't working well that are gonna be very hard to redesign.
And that's because they're controversial.
We don't agree on the manner in which they're broken and what we would like them to do.
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