# The Markets We Love to Ban

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Podcast: [Cato Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cato-podcast-7441736)
Published: 2026-06-04T10:45:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-podcast/markets-we-love-ban
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## Resource

Kidneys, surrogacy, prostitution, gambling, price gouging, assisted dying: some transactions make people recoil, even when all parties consent. Cato's Ryan Bourne talks with Nobel Prize-winning economist Alvin Roth about his new book, Moral Economics , what makes markets “repugnant,” what economists can add to moral debates, and why banning exchange rarely makes scarcity, exploitation, or hard trade-offs disappear. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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