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The Law and Economics of Organ Procurement *
Author(s) -
HYLTON KEITH N.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
law and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.534
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-9930
pISSN - 0265-8240
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9930.1990.tb00047.x
Subject(s) - economic shortage , coercion (linguistics) , procurement , organ procurement , principal (computer security) , economics , quality (philosophy) , business , industrial organization , public economics , law and economics , transplantation , computer security , medicine , computer science , management , epistemology , government (linguistics) , linguistics , philosophy , surgery
This paper presents an economic analysis of the organ procurement system in the U.S. and examines proposals to alleviate the shortage of transplantable organs. The paper's principal conclusions are: (1) Although non‐market solutions deserve the highest priority, demand increases fueled by improvements in transplant technology will probably make some market‐based solution necessary in the future. (2) Quality deterioration and coercion will not necessarily be worrisome problems under a market‐based procurement system.