Al Roth has an interesting post up today at his Market Design blog referencing some data on the crowding out effect, i.e., the idea that if you pay people for something that they are currently donating, altruists will be “crowded out” and you’ll end up with less of the thing that you need. It turns…
Related to Nikola’s post below on the proposed revisions to the deceased donor kidney allocation policy, Al Roth has posted some interesting commentary from OPTN/UNOS Kidney Transplantation Committee Chair John Friedewald (in response to a query on a list serve): “The current proposal for kidney allocation from the UNOS kidney committee is what it is not…
By Nikola Biller Andorno The Kidney Transplantation Committee of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN)/United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) has put forward a proposal that would substantially revise the existing national allocation system for kidneys from deceased donors. It would also dissolve alternate local kidney allocation systems, which were put in place to…
By The Petrie-Flom Center Sorry for the late notice, but we just learned that Al Roth will be giving a talk with this title TODAY @ 3:30 at Stanford. More info here. Al has also pointed us to two relevant posts over at his Market Design blog: Allocating deceased donor kidneys for transplant: problems, some proposed…
By The Petrie-Flom Center Over at Market Design, Al Roth has drawn our attention to two new books addressing organ markets: A Market in Organs (in Kidney Transplantation: Challenging the Future)Miran Epstein and Matching Organs with Donors: Legality and Kinship in Transplants (Contemporary Ethnography) Marie-Andree Jacob
