道德模糊市场的经济学

Controversial transactions test the limits of cost-benefit thinking David Thesmar MORAL ECONOMICS | Moral Economics is a reflection on the moral limits of markets. Its author, Alvin Roth, was co-recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on “matching markets,” defined by human interactions in which monetary transactions are considered immoral. For instance, he designed algorithms that match doctors to residencies and kidneys to patients, so that a given criterion—the satisfaction of young doctors or hospital administrators, or the number of lives saved—is optimized without resorting to market prices. To put it simply, Roth’s life’s work has been to make these human interactions efficient, while ensuring their moral acceptability. …