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Money turns benign transactions contested

A number of transactions become morally contested only when money is added: adoption is acceptable but paying the birth mother for the baby is illegal almost everywhere under the Hague Convention; surrogacy is legal and paid in much of the US, banned entirely in much of Western Europe, and recognized but unpaid in the British Commonwealth, generating fertility tourism.

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Speaker

Alvin Roth

Evidence Quote

there are a bunch of transactions that become morally contested when money is added to them that aren't otherwise morally contested

Source

353 | Alvin Roth on the Economics of Morally Contested MarketsSean Carroll's Mindscape
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:30:11 AM

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