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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And that's what this book is about.
This book is about controversial markets.
And early on in the title, I used the phrase repugnant transactions.
And what I mean by a repugnant transaction is a transaction that some people would like to engage in and other people object to and think shouldn't be engaged in, but not because they're harmed personally, but because they have moral or religious objections.
And so I talk about a lot of markets like that in this new book.
Okay.
So –
So repugnant transactions are transactions that some people want to engage in and other people don't like, whereas disgusting transactions are mostly things that no one wants to engage in.
So, for example, in California, where I live, we have a law making it a felony to sell horse meat for human consumption.
You can't buy horse meat in a California restaurant.
A recent law.
Yeah.
But not an old cowboy law.
It's not when a horse was a man's best friend.
This was a law passed by people who thought of horses as pets.
The same law makes it illegal to sell dogs for human consumption.
But there's no law in California against selling worms for human consumption.
Nor is there a law for selling beverages made of other people's saliva, for instance, because those are disgusting.
And the law of supply and demand takes care of those.
No one could run a restaurant that sold saliva-based drinks.
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