Kidney Failure
16th October 2012
Steven Landsburg is not afraid to say what everyone ought to be thinking.
So Alvin Roth wins the Nobel Prize for, among other things, figuring out the best way to allocate kidneys subject to the constraint that you’re too damned dumb to use the price system.
Next up: A Nobel prize in medicine for figuring out the best way to prolong your life while repeatedly shooting yourself in the head.
And that tells you pretty much everything you need to know on the subject.