"I'm more worried about democracy than artificial intelligence": Italian press on Moral Economics in advance of the International Festival of Economics

In the run-up to the  International Festival of Economics in Turin starting today, Vanity Fair in Italy publishes an interview with me under this headline:

Alvin Roth: «Sono più preoccupato per la democrazia che per l’intelligenza artificiale»

 "I'm more worried about democracy than artificial intelligence" 

 

The Festival itself publishes this article:

ROTH E LA SFIDA DEI MERCATI RIPUGNANTI  ROTH AND THE CHALLENGE OF REPULSIVE MARKETS 

 

And here's an essay I sent in English, translated into Italian, which you can translate back pretty well:)

Eco­no­mia in cerca di morale
Esi­stono mer­cati con­tro­versi (alcol, gioco d’azzardo, utero in affitto...) su cui i vari Paesi hanno posi­zioni diverse, riflette il Nobel Alvin E. Roth: non sem­pre si arri­verà al con­senso col­let­tivo, ma è lecito esplo­rare com­pro­messi La Lettura
Di ALVIN E. ROTH (tra­du­zione di Rita Bal­das­sarre)

Economy in search of morale
There are controversial markets (alcohol, gambling, surrogacy...) on which the various countries have different positions, reflects the Nobel Prize winner Alvin E. Roth: collective consensus will not always be reached, but it is legitimate to explore compromises 

The danger to democracy: some quantitative measures (Martin Wolf in the Financial Times)

 Read it and weep.

We must not underestimate the peril for democracy
Donald Trump’s America is a world leader in democratic decline  by Martin Wolf 

"Democracy is in grave peril, worldwide. This is the message of two authoritative recent reports — one, from Sweden’s V-Dem, subtitled “Unraveling The Democratic Era?” and the other, from Freedom House in the US, subtitled “The Growing Shadow of Autocracy”. These make two fundamental points. The first is that what Stanford’s Larry Diamond has labelled a “democratic recession”, which began two decades ago, is beginning to look dangerously like a democratic depression. The other is that, in 2025, the Trump administration launched what turned out to be the swiftest decline in the health of any significant democracy in recent times. 

 

 and compared to S. Africa: