How to Solve the Organ Donating Disaster  Exchanging goods and
services has been a staple of every functioning society, proving
its effectiveness. And yet we’ve failed to implement this
economic concept in the organ donor market, which currently lies
in a dire state. Although we buy and sell almost everything
these days, the idea of selling organs for a monetary value is
still revolting to most. The suggestion may be repulsive, but
certainly not more than the 4,000 deaths that occurred in the
U.S. in 2011 of people waiting for a kidney.  The increasing
demand of organs each year in the U.S., coupled with the
stagnant supply of donors, has caused a grave shortage in the
organ market. In a normal market for a good, there would be a
shift in the price of the good until demand and supply hit
equilibrium. Since there’s an absence of price in this market,
there’s no reason for the demand to decrease and, more
importantly, no reason for the suppliers to give more. The
absence of price means the absence of incentives