It is hard to find an economist who agrees with U.S. law on organ markets. Currently it is illegal to sell your organs to another. This law means we watch tens of thousands of people needlessly die every year in the U.S. and we deny yet another avenue for the poor to find an escape. The current system blatantly favors the rich who have the networking ability to get their name to the top of the list, generating an enormous amount of inequality. Curiously, those who raise "ethical" objections to organ markets seem to get this backwards. Regardless, biochemist Stephanie Murphy at U Mass-Amherst has written a nice short essay titled "Eight Ethical Objections to an Organ Market...And Why They're Wrong."
Hat Tip to the Perfect Substitute.
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