# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Alvin E. Roth at the Cambridge Public Library
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 11 May, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Mon, 11 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: presenting Moral Economics: From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets WorkAbout this EventHarvard Book Store and the Cambridge Public Library welcome Alvin E. Roth—Nobel Prize–⁠winning economist, the Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard University—for a discussion of his new book, Moral Economics: From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work.TicketingRSVP for free to this event or choose the "Book-Included" ticket to reserve a copy of Moral Economics and pick it up at the event. Following the presentation will be a book signing.Note: Books bundled with tickets may only be picked up at the venue the night of the event, and cannot be picked up in-store beforehand. Ticket holders who purchased a book-included ticket and are unable to attend the event will be able to pick up their book at Harvard Book Store up to 30 days following the event. This offer expires after 30 days. Please note we cannot guarantee signed copies will be available to ticket holders who do not attend the event.About Moral EconomicsA Nobel Prize–⁠winning economist shows us why we have to deal in trade-offs when we can’t agree on what’s right and what’s wrong.Some of the most intractable controversies in our divided society are, at bottom, about what actions and transactions should be banned. Should women and couples be able to purchase contraception, access in vitro fertilization, and end pregnancy by obtaining an abortion? Should people be able to buy marijuana? What about fentanyl? Can someone be paid to donate blood plasma, or a kidney?Disagreements are fierce because arguments on both sides are often made in uncompromising moral or religious terms. But in Moral Economics, Nobel Prize–winning economist Alvin E. Roth asserts that we can make progress on these and other difficult topics if we view them as markets—tools to help decide who gets what—and understand how those markets can be fine-tuned to be more functional. Markets don’t have to allow everything or ban everything. Prudent market design can find a balance between preserving people’s rights to pursue their own interests and protecting the most vulnerable from harm.Combining Roth’s unparalleled expertise as market design pioneer with his incisive, witty accounts of complicated issues, Moral Economics offers a powerful and innovative new framework for resolving today’s hardest controversies.BioAlvin E. Roth is the Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard University. A pioneering expert in the field of market design, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2012. A member of the National Academy of Sciences and past president of the American Economic Association, he lives in Stanford, California.Masking PolicyMasks are encouraged but not required for this event.Co-SponsorThe Cambridge Public Library serves as a doorway to opportunity, self-development, and recreation for all its residents, and as a forum where they may share ideas, cultures, and resources among themselves and with people around the globe. Learn more at cambridgema.gov/cpl.
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## Ticket Details

- **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 40.04, currency: USD

## Event venue details

- **city**: Cambridge
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Cambridge Public Library
- **lat**: 42.373721
- **long**: -71.11094800000001
- **full address**: Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, United States

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  - **A:** Alvin E. Roth at the Cambridge Public Library takes place on Mon, 11 May, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Mon, 11 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm at Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, United States.
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