Ever since this article appeared–”Sell Your Kidney, Make a Profit” by Ninos Malek–the Mises Institute has received a steady stream of emails and phonecalls offering to sell and hoping to buy various body parts. As a non-profit organization dedicated to economic education, we cannot do this. Nor are we really prepared to received bodily organs as in-kind gifts. The article has been updated to reflect these facts.
Source link: http://blog.mises.org/2795/the-mises-institute-neither-buys-nor-sells-kidneys/
The Mises Institute neither buys nor sells kidneys
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Hahahaah.
Too bad, someone needs to help these folks out.
It is amazing the things people are asked to donate. Would someone asking for an organ donation ask people on the street to give them a few hundred thousand dollars for nothing?? Would they expect to get it?
Well, I am guessing the inital market value of a good quality kidney would be in that range.
If I’m reading the blog entry right, people were offering to sell and buy — not asking for, or offering, donations. Also, a healthy kidney costs many thousands of dollars on the black market. The black market on kidney’s exists because the State has criminalized this victimless action. We have no way of knowing what the prices would be in an unhampered free market, though I think we can say that they would not be “trivial”.
I will sell kidney.I am healthy mums 32 summer.
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