Can I sell my kidney?

I wasn’t going to break the ice on this issue (thanks Joe) but I think it is definitely worth considering.

Yaron Brook, President of The Ayn Rand Institute, was a guest on yesterday’s Ben Merens radio show where the topic was legalizing the sale of organs and a paper by The ARI’s own David Holcberg. Listen to it here.

This topic brings up all sorts of interesting questions about the morality of markets and the virtues of voluntary exchange. How far can markets go? Does the right to life include the right to sell your bodyparts? Are organ sellers rational?

While we’re debating, the 89,000 person waitlist for organs is only getting longer.