# The moral and economic case for delaying aging - Raiany Romanni-Klein

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Podcast: [Free Radicals](https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-radicals-7588534)
Published: 2026-02-24T13:08:06+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/danielshur/episodes/The-moral-and-economic-case-for-delaying-aging---Raiany-Romanni-Klein-e3fh71u
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## Resource

Raiany Romanni-Klein is a Harvard and Brown-trained bioethicist focused on understanding why secular people like to narrate death and aging as good things, and quantifying the economic impacts of such narratives. She worked with legends like George Church and Steven Pinker on her PhD, and also played a central role in designing the $101 million dollar XPRIZE for Healthspan, the largest science prize ever awarded. Raiany is also the founder of a new think tank designed to study and streamline progress in America’s science and technology, and most recently published a paper demonstrating that delaying overall biological aging by just one year could yield $27 trillion dollars in net present value. Today’s conversation is focused on the ethics and economics of longevity.

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