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Designing a market for human transplant organs

The market for human transplant organs is characterised by scarcity. Stephanie De Mel of the Institute for Fiscal Studies considers how we allocate scarce resources without recourse to prices

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Markets are ubiquitous — transactions for goods and services underpin the structure of our daily lives. While each has different characteristics, the majority of markets we participate in share a common feature — the use of prices to allocate resources. The adjustment of prices to achieve market equilibrium, by equating the quantity demanded of a good or service with the quantity supplied, is a fundamental concept in economics. Moreover, it is the market’s solution to the question of how to allocate scarce resources among competing buyers.

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