Disputes about medical aid in dying are as contentious in Britain as in the US. Here's some discussion on VoxTalks Economics, in connection with my (imminently) forthcoming Moral Economics.*
The Right to Choose to Die Alvin Roth interviewed by Tim Phillips 1 May 2026
"Content note: this episode discusses assisted dying, end-of-life choices, and suicide. Some listeners may find the content distressing.
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"This week Tim Phillips talks to Al Roth of Stanford University about how economics can contribute to the debate on medical aid in dying (MAID). Roth, a Nobel Prize laureate, has written a new book that argues this, and similar debates, often miss the key insight: the binary choice of “allow” versus “ban” rarely reflects reality. For example, in the United States, he explains that physicians in jurisdictions where assisted dying is illegal are familiar with the practice of administering doses of drugs that will relieve pain, but also end life.
Roth's argument is not that assisted dying is always right. It is that a moral position that ignores the costs of a ban is not more ethical — it is less honest. Economists, he says, bring one specific thing to this debate: the insistence that trade-offs be made explicit. "
The right to choose to die Season 9 Episode 27 May 1
And here's the (automatically generated) transcript...
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The UK version of Moral Economics is here.
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