Moral Economics
what controversial transactions reveal about how markets work
$33.60
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
18 May 2026
Summary
You Can’t Do That: Navigating Repugnance in a World of Trade-offs
Nobel Prize winner Alvin Roth argues that our most important and difficult decisions - about our most controversial issues - require a different calculation of what matters most.
Our intuitive and automatic thinking is influenced - in ways we don’t always recognize - by strongly-held notions of repugnance. A transaction is repugnant if some people want to engage in it, and others think they sh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399816632 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399816632 |
| Author: | Alvin Roth |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | Basic Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 18 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm |
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About The Author
Alvin Roth
Alvin E. Roth, PhD, is the McCaw Professor of Economics at Stanford University and is one of the world’s leading experts in the fields of market design and game theory. He was a corecipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in economics. Roth received his Ph.D. at Stanford University at the age of 22 and was tenured at the University of Illinois by the age of 25. Before joining the Stanford faculty, he was the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard University and in the Harvard Business School. Roth won the Nobel Prize for his work as one of the founders of the new economic discipline of market design, the subject of his 2015 book Who Gets What - and Why? The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design.
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