Selling Organs?

The authors of Freakonomics wrote an interesting article that touches on a few things we discussed in class last week.  In the article, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner argue that one of the big reasons that it's illegal to sell human organs for transplants in the U.S. is that it simply strikes most of us as repugnant.  Shades of Leon Kass!

They argue, however, that repugnance isn't a good enough reason to object to a practice.  Further, they suggest that opening up an organ market would create an incentive for many to give up their healthy organs.  This, in turn, would lead to a larger supply of organs.
 
Levitt and Dubner wrote a sequel to their book with the cool title SuperFreakonomics.