The organ shortage has hit crisis proportions. With 20 to 30 Americans dying every day because they can't get a transplant, it is time to stop trying to tweak a system which in 30 years has not managed to keep up with demand. We need to start thinking seriously about compensating living donors

In kidney paired donation (KPD), incompatible pairs exchange kidneys so that each recipient receives a compatible organ. This modality is underutilized partly because of the difficulty of finding a suitable match among incompatible pairs. Alternatively, recipients with compatible donors might...

Many people object to the creation of a market for kidneys on the grounds that such reform would hurt those patients unable to afford the market price of a kidney and that donors do not understand the risks they’re taking when donating. In this paper, we propose a mechanism, the kidney...