Organs: An Untapped Source

Walter E. Block ()
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Walter E. Block: Loyola University New Orleans

Acta Economica Et Turistica, 2022, vol. 8, issue 1, 73-92

Abstract: A willing seller and buyer voluntarily agree upon the price for the exchange of X dollars for one Y widget. The trade satisfies some of their human wants. Both parties are better off for having made the profitable exchange or they would not have transacted. Once the Y widget becomes a life-saving organ, like a kidney, all bets are off according to the present prohibition on life-saving trades between two parties seeking to better themselves through an exchange. We contend that organs sourced from their willing owners seeking to sell part of themselves for a price present hitherto untapped life-saving trades that should be legalized forthwith.

Keywords: transplants; organ markets; economic freedom; medical ethics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.46672/aet.8.1.4

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