Free exchange Game, set and match Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley have won this year’s Nobel for economics IN MOST countries it is illegal to buy or sell a kidney. If you need a transplant you join a waiting list until a matching organ becomes available. This drives economists nuts. Why not allow willing donors to sell spare kidneys and let patients (or the government, acting on their behalf) bid for
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