JC has a good idea about the contract with the donor prior to death-
this is similar to the idea of compensating victims of car crashes or
other fatal torts prior to death in David Friedman's Law's Order. One
problem that comes to mind here- it may be hard to draw such a contract
because of c
> Also, organs might be removed before people are
> really dead
You mean like that scene in Monty Python's "The
Meaning of Life"? ;-)
Personally I would be less concerned about the nearly
dead in U.S. hospitals than I would be about third
world street urchins. An enterprising organization
coul
It seems to me that most criticisms of organ sales are based on the
postmortem sale of organs. Robert is right that this creates some perverse
incentives. A way to remedy this problem is to allow only the seller of the
organ to be compensated prior to death. That is, "Here's $1000, w
This topic seems to be near-and-dear to the "heart" of free-market
economists everywhere
It seems the U.S. might actually allow the sale of human organs for
transplant in the near future. This raises some interesting issues.
On the one hand, obviously we should expect the quantity of organs
