[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Al Roth - Moral Economics and Repugnant Transactions
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Episode notes
What makes a transaction repugnant? And why does society allow some controversial markets to flourish while banning others that seem far less harmful?
In this episode, Ben sits down with Al Roth, Nobel laureate and professor of economics at Stanford, to explore the hidden moral architecture beneath the markets we take for granted, and the ones we don't allow at all. Drawing on his new book Moral Economics, Al makes the case that good policy can't be built on moral intuition alone.
Topics covered:
- What "repugnant" actually means in relation to transactions
- Surr ...