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Organs: An Untapped Source

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  • Walter E. Block

    (Loyola University New Orleans)

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A willing seller and buyer voluntarily agree upon the price for the exchange of X dollars for one Y widget. The trade satisfies some of their human wants. Both parties are better off for having made the profitable exchange or they would not have transacted. Once the Y widget becomes a life-saving organ, like a kidney, all bets are off according to the present prohibition on life-saving trades between two parties seeking to better themselves through an exchange. We contend that organs sourced from their willing owners seeking to sell part of themselves for a price present hitherto untapped life-saving trades that should be legalized forthwith.

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  • Walter E. Block, 2022. "Organs: An Untapped Source," Acta Economica Et Turistica, Libertas International University, vol. 8(1), pages 73-92, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:awd:acectu:v:8:y:2022:i:1:p:73-92
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.46672/aet.8.1.4
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