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Battling Resistance to Antibiotics and Pesticides: An Economic Approach Book

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  • Battling Resistance to Antibiotics and Pesticides: An Economic Approach
  • Written by author Ramanan Laxminarayan
  • Published by Earthscan/James & James, December 2002
  • As resistance to antibiotics and pesticides increases, threatening significant advances in public health and agriculture achieved in the last century, regulation is struggling to keep up. Laxminarayan and his contributors examine the economics of resistan
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Introduction: On the Economics of Resistance1
1Dynamics of Antibiotic Use: Ecological versus Interventionist Strategies To Manage Resistance to Antibiotics17
2Using Antibiotics When Resistance Is Renewable42
3Value of Treatment Heterogeneity for Infectious Diseases63
Commentary: To Take or Not To Take the Antibiotic?76
Commentary: Same Infection, Same Time, Same Antibiotic?84
4Pest Mobility, Market Share, and the Efficacy of Refuge Requirements for Resistance Management94
Commentary: Need for Direct Collaboration between Economists and Biologists113
5The Impact of Resistance on Antibiotic Demand in Patients with Ear Infections119
Commentary: Measuring the Cost of Resistance134
6What Can We Learn from the Economics of Pesticides? Impact Assessment of Genetically Modified Plants137
Commentary: The Role of Ecosystem Complexity in Genetically Modified Organisms158
7Elements of Economic Resistance Management Strategies - Empirical Evidence from Case Studies in Germany161
Commentary: Can We Justify Resistance Management Strategies for Conventional Pesticides?180
8Pesticide Resistance, the Precautionary Principle, and the Regulation of Bt Corn: Real Option and Rational Option Approaches to Decisionmaking184
9Resistance Economics of Transgenic Crops under Uncertainty: A Real Option Approach214
Commentary: Economics of Transgenic Crops and Pest Resistance: An Epidemiological Perspective238
10An Economic Model of a Genetic Resistance Commons: Effects of Market Structure Applied to Biotechnology in Agriculture263
Commentary: Does the Monopolist Care about Resistance?288
11The Interaction of Dynamic Problems and Dynamic Policies: Some Economics of Biotechnology293
12Industrial Organization and Institutional Considerations in Agricultural Pest Resistance Management330
Commentary: Strategic Issues in Agricultural Pest Resistance Management357
Index363
About the Editor377


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