Alvin Roth

Alvin Roth, Nobel Prize–winning economist and market designer at Stanford, explores morally contested markets. He discusses how markets differ from other institutions and how design, law, and social norms shape transactions. Short segments cover kidney exchanges, paid plasma, surrogacy, drug policy, and why some trades become politically fraught.

Alvin E. Roth, Nobel Prize–winning economist and Stanford professor known for market design and kidney exchanges. He talks about designing matching systems that save lives. He explores why some trades feel morally wrong, how rules shape behavior, and how better systems can reduce harm. He discusses organ donation, surrogacy, drug policy and using experiments to craft smarter regulations.

Alvin E. Roth, Nobel Prize–winning economist and market designer, explains how market design can fix broken exchanges. He discusses kidney shortages and the debate over paid donation. He explores kidney exchanges, moral disgust around buying organs, and pragmatic experiments on payments. He also compares organ markets to plasma, drugs, and sex work to show how norms shape economic outcomes.

Alvin Roth, Nobel Prize winning economist known for matching theory and market design, discusses controversial real-world markets. He talks about legalization of prostitution and evidence from natural experiments. He explores kidney transplant shortages, exchange chains, and proposals to compensate donors. He also covers surrogacy, assisted dying, repugnance as a constraint, and how evidence should guide policy.

Alvin Roth, Nobel Prize–winning economist and market designer, discusses how incentives and systems shape decisions. He explores repugnant transactions, markets as allocation systems, prohibition pushing trades underground, kidney and plasma markets, and how norms, trust, and policy interact with emerging tech. Short, surprising takes on how structures steer choices.