Following up my post from last week about organ donation, here is an article from Reason advocating (surprise) a market-based solution:
If you want to induce people to provide something that other people want, there are basically three possible approaches. The first is to encourage them to do so out of the pure joy of helping others. That hasn't worked. The second is to take it from them, an approach that "presumed consent" uses. That probably won't be enough, either, and it has the added downside of infringing on personal autonomy.
The third is to appeal to their own self-interest—by paying them. People could sign contracts agreeing to donate any organs suitable for transplant when they die, with the money going to their heirs.
I still like my idea better.
# posted by Keir Wilmut : 11:47 AM
