According to the Wall Street Journal, in 2012, 95,000 American men, women and children were on the waiting list for new kidneys, the most commonly transplanted organ. Yet only about 16,500 kidney transplant operations were performed that year. One proposed strategy for increasing the number of organ transplants has been to legalize the sale of organs. The objective of this discussion is for our class to develop a consensus view on the desirability of legalizing the sale of organs. To do you will communicate with your fellow students using an electronic bulletin board. Your grade on this assignment will be based on the number and quality of comments you make to the discussion.

• Who would benefit and who would lose from legalization?
• What would happen to overall economic surplus?
• What kinds of problems would legalization create?
• What kinds of benefits do you see?
• Are there some non-economic arguments you should consider?