Nobel Laureate Alvin Roth: How Incentives Shape Your Life | EP 757
21 April - 56 minsWhat if the choices you make every day aren’t entirely your own?
In this episode of Passion Struck, I sit down with Nobel Prize-winning economist Alvin Roth to explore how incentives, systems, and hidden structures shape human behavior—often in ways we don’t even realize.
Drawing from his new book, Moral Economics: From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work, Roth reveals a powerful truth: markets aren’t just about money—they are systems that decide who gets what, who gets access, and what society considers acceptable.
We explore why banning certain behaviors often pushes them underground, how so-called “repugnant transactions” reveal ou...
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