Alvin E. Roth delivered his Prize Lecture on 8 December 2012 at Aula Magna, Stockholm University.

Interview conducted on 6 December 2012.

I was born on December 18, 1951 in the New York City borough of Queens. My parents, Ernest and Lillian, were both public high school teachers of a subject that is probably no longer taught, called Secretarial Studies, which focused on typing and taking dictation via two methods of shorthand...