Economists are sometimes considered to be a bit odd, and the same thing is sometimes said about libertarians.
And since I’m a libertarian economist, I realize that makes me doubly suspect.
So when I’ve written about the desirability of market-based organ transplants (see here, here, and here), I realize some people will instinctively object because selling one’s organs is somehow distasteful and icky.
Or it makes people subject to exploitation. For instance, writing for the Washington Post, Scott Carney argues that organ sales would take advantage of the poor.
What would happen if the United States legalized the sale of human organs? …Whether we like it or not, we live in the era of globalization, and if the U.S. legalizes the market for body parts, there is no reason to think that international economies won’t play a role in how a patient decides to procure…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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