Alvin E. Roth
Podcast
Nobel Prize Conversations
Should you be able to buy a kidney? Economic sciences laureate Alvin Roth would call that, and other taboo exchanges, repugnant transactions. Roth pioneered ways of describing outlier markets where prices don’t work, explaining why you can’t buy a job at Google, acceptance at Yale – or a human organ.
This Nobel Prize conversation was conducted in March 2020. The host of the podcast is nobelprize.org’s Adam Smith.
Nobel Prizes and laureates
Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons.
See them all presented here.
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Look for popular awards and laureates in different fields, and discover the history of the Nobel Prize.
