How to Get Real About Organs

Alexander Tabarrok

Econ Journal Watch, 2004, vol. 1, issue 1, 11-18

Abstract: Greater payment induces greater supply. The reasons offered by Byrne and Thompson to doubt this proposition in the field of organ donation are unconvincing. Financial compensation for those who sign their organ donor cards would save lives.

Keywords: shortage; medicine; law; transplant organs; financial compensation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I11 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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