# Alvin Roth

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Why markets fail — and how to fix them (ft. Nobel economist Alvin Roth)

Long before crypto made coordination programmable, Nobel Prize winner Alvin Roth was designing markets where coordination could save lives.  In this episode of First Principles, Roth tells the story of how he helped build systems for some of the hardest matching problems in the world, from where d…

Is Healthcare a Moral Marketplace?

What does a morally defensible, healthy, legal, commercial marketplace look like, and how can we design one for healthcare? Nobel laureate Alvin Roth, Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard University,…

Repugnant Markets

Alvin Roth won a Nobel Prize for designing workarounds to markets society finds morally repugnant. Sandy Klein argues the workarounds aren’t needed. Taking Roth’s objections in turn—that such markets are too thin, that participants won’t reveal their preferences, that the offense others feel is a n…

Sex, Drugs, and Death

Economist Alvin Roth, winner of the economics Nobel in 2012 for his work on market design, joins Cardiff to discuss his new book, Moral Economics: From Prostitution to Organ Sales: What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work. The book is about morally contested markets: transactio…

Nobel Prize Winner on "Moral Economics"

This week, I sit down with Dr. Alvin Roth, Nobel Prize-winning economist, Stanford professor, and author of Moral Economics: From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work. Al lays out why so-called repugnant markets like kidney sales, prostitution, …

Repugnant Markets: Where Blood is Sold and Kidneys Swapped

They’re shamed, banned, or driven underground but “repugnant markets” have a way of surviving. Organ sales, MAID, even blood sales fall into the category. Nobel Prize-winning economist Alvin Roth comes to Canadaland to discuss his latest book, Moral Economics: From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What…

Repugnant Markets

Alvin Roth won a Nobel Prize for designing workarounds to markets society finds morally repugnant. Sandy Klein argues the workarounds aren't needed. Taking Roth's objections in turn—that such markets are too thin, that participants won't reveal their preferences, that the offense others feel is a n…

Kidneys for sale

Is it ever okay to put a price on a kidney? Why is it illegal to sell an organ, but perfectly legal to sell blood plasma? This episode explores the world of "repugnant transactions" — the markets we find morally offensive — and asks why we ban certain markets as "gross" or "unethical" while ignorin…

TRC #739: Is Space Fake? + Book Reviews: The Unthinkable and Moral Economics

Is space fake? Are the stars real? How about other planets? Despite what they tried to teach you in school, doesn't it just feel like the Earth is actually the center of the universe? Adam looks at people who don't believe in space, and explores why that may be. Darren gives us book reviews on two …

594. Your Brand’s Spokesperson Just Got Arrested — Now What?

It’s hard to know whether the benefits of hiring a celebrity are worth the risk. We dig into one gruesome story of an endorsement gone wrong, and find a surprising result.  SOURCES: John Cawley, professor of economics at Cornell University. Elizabeth (Zab) Johnson, executive director and senior fe…