Selling kidneys is a popular topic of debate among the libertarian crowd. Alex Tabarrok over at Marginal Revolution recently noted that in Iran, not only is selling your kidneys legal, but they have eliminated any waiting lists for those transplants. Without getting into that debate at the moment, it seems from the evidence, that this market-transplant system saves lives by increasing the number of available (living-donor) organs for transplant.
So why can’t the market do other things for us? Continue reading
