Kennesaw University Professor Frank A. Adams III and Auburn University Professors A. H. Barnett and David L. Kaser man recently estimated the effect of legalizing the sale of cadaverous organs, which currently are in shortage at zero prices. What are the effects of the following two possibilities on the equilibrium price and quantity of transplanted organs if their sale were to be legalized? Demonstrate your answers graphically.
Many of those currently willing to donate the organs of a deceased relative at zero prices are offended that organs can be bought and sold and therefore withdraw from the donor program.