Articles
Code Red - The Organ Shortage Is Not Something to Play Down - (Sally Satel and Benjamin Hippen, published in National Review August 14, 2007)
As the transplant waiting list soars beyond 100,000, some claim that the list is inflated with patients who are ineligible for transplants. The truth is that the acute organ shortage is more dire than the list suggests.
Organ Sales and Moral Travails: Lessons From the Living KIdney Vendor Program in Iran - (Benjamin Hippen, Cat Institute Policy Analysis, March 20, 2008)
A critical examination of the world's only country that compensates organ donors and does not have a shortage of organs - Iran.
The Organ Donor Taboo - (Michele Goodwin, University of Chicago, originally published in Forbes Oct 15, 2007)
Pay for donations? Maybe states should experiment with the idea.
Supply, Demand and Kidney Transplants - (Sally Satel, Resident Scholar American Enterprise Institute, originally published in New York Times Magazine, Aug 1, 2007)
As death and suffering mount, constructing an incentive program to increase the supply of transplantable organs becomes a moral imperative.
Let the Market Save Lives - (Douglas Carey, Ludwig von Mises Institute)
A straightforward defense of free market activities in organ procurement.
Death Toll Still Rising - (Mark Thornton, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Aug 1, 2002)
Public Policy Request - American Spectator
Written by a columnist who also happens to be on the kidney transplant waiting list and submits that the government should allow reimbursements for donors and compel presumed consent.
Black Markets, transplant kidneys and interpersonal coercion. (James S. Taylor, Professor of Philosophy, The University of New Jersey, appearing in the Journal of Medical Ethics, Dec. 2006)
Examines the common argument that legalizing markets in human kidneys would result in widespread misuse and patient coercion and rejects it for three reasons: the benefits outweigh the potential disadvantages, we should only condemn and refuse organs obtained by coercion, and more people are likely to be coerced in a black market rather than a legal market.
Organ Donor Shortage Should Trigger Market Forces - (J.J. Huebert, Columbus Dispatch, June 13, 2007)
We Favor a Freer Market in Kidneys (William Barnett II, Michael Saliba and Deborah Walker, originally published in The Independent Review, Spring 2003)
Waiting For a Transplant - (William L. Anderson and Andy Barnett, Ludwig von Mises Institute, April 1999)
Simple and straightfoward economic analysis of the current organ transplant system.
In Defense of a Regulated Market - (Dr. Benjamin Hippen, appearing in the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy)
Organ Donations: Socialism or Laissez-Faire? - (Adam Young, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Jan 7, 2004)
Contrasts the current centralized system of organ allocation with a market based solution.
Don't Fear the Market - (Donald Boudreaux, Pitsburgh Tribune Review, June 20, 2006)
An Illegal Market That Could Save Your Life - (John Stossel, July 12, 2006)
Stossel explores the injustice of the state claiming ownership of your organs and forbidding any transaction surrounding organ transplantation that would save lives.
Flesh Trade: Weighing the Repugnance Factor - (NY Times, Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt, Jly 9, 2006)
The authors of Freakonomics deal directly with the objection raised by many that the sale of body parts is repugnant.