Sally Satel on Incentives, Altruism, and Kidney Transplants

Michael Giberson Sally Satel writes on “Supply, Demand, and Kidney Transplants” in Policy Review: Under the 1984 National Organ Transplant Act, anyone who offers or receives something of material value in exchange for an organ can be charged with a felony. The ban ’s rationale was twofold: to prevent lurid scenarios in which desperately poor …

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