Dear Friends,
In this age of Globalization...we know that, world has become a village. But in this village, there is multidimensional war across different family of the village.......where people are rational, who always look for the chance of pulling the carpet under the feet of others ans show themselves above them. In this age we cut others leg to show oneself longer, rather than trying better only for oneself. Between these hustle-bustle within the village, there are big gulf between poor and rich.
On the one hand we see that, rich can buy anything he wants....that is even if he needs kidney. And poor can sell any thing to survive. Economists are happy now, because they get the concept of demand and supply here as well. But welfare criteria of Rawls is dissapeared. That is trying to make better of to the poorest one is gone, the moment we start demand and supply of human organs. Again we would like to tell the best price of the poor he can sell, but we won't tell, whether organs are at all unsaleable. Since, there is no market for these products....but there is always black market for precious good, where one can make huge money. So, this trading start either by recruiting people as a labour the remote rural areas and kidnapping kids from urban slums. They are brought, in the cities and sent to Saudi Arab etc. Apart from this some other form of economics of trafficking can be seen in following links-
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/india.htm
ReplyDeletebut ppl r free to decide whether to ell or not. Once they make that decision on their own free will, then obviously they are better of after the transaction. So, where does the question of exploitation arise?
ReplyDeleteSandip of course you can better talk about the market clearing condition than any other poor organ seller. But being a humanitarian economist...selling organ is the nadir stage of poverty. With Market clearing condition where demand and supply both match, but this implies failure of many field of economics where we talk about the development, subsistence wage...etc. because of which,somebody is selling organs like kidney. Any way I have mixed up the sentiments in theory but...this opens up opportunity for more forced trafficking...
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