A presentation at that college’s research conference suggested selling organs. Due to the controversy, the dean kept silent and ignored the president of the university with a statement.
Titled The Economics of Organ Donation, this presentation opened the Research Conference in Economic, Legal and Social Sciences at the Faculty of Economics of the National University of Salta (UNSa).
The author, Julio Elias, a professor at the University of Argentina’s Center for Macroeconomic Studies, was invited to give this talk last Thursday at Graduate House.
This fact, after it became known to the public, caused an uproar. The association with the “libertarian” Javier Meli’s proposals became inevitable.
As Elias himself explained to the local press, this would be a “utilitarian solution” and he cited the Nobel Prize in Economics, Gary Becker, as one of the theorists who researched the subject.
Theodolinda Zoveria, event organizer from the Faculty of Economics, consulting Salta 12, emphasized that “conferences arise as a reaction to one of the strategic axes proposed by the profession: the promotion of research”.
While they were from the deanship led by Mr. Martin Miguel Nina, they did not express themselves in this respect. But there was an acquittal from the UNU administration.
And they pointed out in a statement that “each college in this house of graduate studies is free to plan its academic activities.” They limited that in this sense, the university president’s office “did not participate in or promote the organization of the said conference.”
They then indicated that organ donation in Argentina is voluntary and free. In addition, its marketing is expressly prohibited, by Law No. 27447.
They said: “From the office of the Rector, we confirm that organ donation saves lives, and for this reason, we appreciate the paradigm shift it has brought about in our country, the approval and regulation of Law No. 27447.”
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