[lbo-talk] Why Economists are Dumb, part 268

[Kevin Robert Dean]

Always the bottom line with these folks....Not to say that
it's wrong to think of ways to increase organ
donorship--but harvisting the poor to give to the rich
doesn't seem like a good idea to me....

"Dr Becker, of Chicago University, speaking at an
international conference at the university, estimated that
paying $15,000 (£9,300) for a kidney would increase
transplants by one third. 

The body needs only one kidney to function and many
patients receive organs donated by partners and other
relatives. 

Dr Becker, who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1992,
has also calculated that offering donors $32,000 (£20,000)
for part of their liver would see such transplants soar by
60 per cent."

Full Story:
http://news.scotsman.com/health.cfm?id=564722003
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