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Title

Battling resistance to antibiotics and pesticides : an economic approach / edited by Ramanan Laxminarayan.

Publication

Washington, DC : Resources for the Future, c2003.

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Additional Authors

Laxminarayan, Ramanan.

Description

xix, 377 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Drug resistance in microorganisms
• Pesticide resistance > Economic aspects

Note

• "An RFF Press book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available on the Internet.

Contents

• Introduction: On the Economics of Resistance / Ramanan Laxminarayan -- ISSUES OF OPTIMAL MANAGEMENT OF RESISTANCE -- Dynamics of Antibiotic Use: Ecological versus Interventionist Strategies To Manage Resistance to Antibiotics / James E. Wilen and Siwa Msangi -- Using Antibiotics When Resistance Is Renewable / Robert Rowthorn and Gardner M. Brown -- Value of Treatment Heterogeneity for Infectious Diseases / Ramanan Laxminarayan and Martin L. Weitzman -- Commentary: To Take or Not To Take the Antibiotic? / James N. Sanchirico -- Commentary: Same Infection, Same Time, Same Antibiotic? / Stephen W. Salant -- Pest Mobility, Market Share, and the Efficacy of Refuge Requirements for Resistance Management / Silvia Secchi and Bruce A. Babcock -- Commentary: Need for Direct Collaboration between Economists and Biologists / Fred Gould -- THE IMPACT OF RESISTANCE -- The Impact of Resistance on Antibiotic Demand in Patients with Ear Infections / David H. Howard and Kimberly J. Rask -- Commentary: Measuring the Cost of Resistance / Ramanan Laxminarayan --
• What Can We Learn from the Economics of Pesticides? Impact Assessment of Genetically Modified Plants / Hermann Waibel, Jan C Zadoks, and Gerd Fleischer -- Commentary: The Role of Ecosystem Complexity in Genetically Modified Organisms / Karl Seeley -- Elements of Economic Resistance Management Strategies-Empirical Evidence from Case Studies in Germany / Gerd Fleischer and Hermann Waibel -- Commentary: Can We Justify Resistance Management Strategies for Conventional Pesticides? / Fred Gould -- Pesticide Resistance, the Precautionary Principle, and the Regulation of Bt Corn: Real Option and Rational Option Approaches to Decisionmaking / Benoit Morel, R. Scott Farrow, Felicia Wu, and Elizabeth A. Casman -- Resistance Economics of Transgenic Crops under Uncertainty: A Real Option Approach / Justus Wesseler -- Commentary: Economics of Transgenic Crops and Pest Resistance: An Epidemiological Perspective / Christopher A. Gilligan -- THE BEHAVIOR OF FIRMS -- An Economic Model of a Genetic Resistance Commons: Effects of Market Structure Applied to Biotechnology in Agriculture / Douglas Noonan -- Commentary: Does the Monopolist Care about Resistance? / Carolyn Fischer -- The Interaction of Dynamic Problems and Dynamic Policies: Some Economics of Biotechnology / Timo Goeschl and Timothy Swanson -- Industrial Organization and Institutional Considerations in Agricultural Pest Resistance Management / Jennifer Alix and David Zilberman -- Commentary: Strategic Issues in Agricultural Pest Resistance Management / R. David Simpson.

Call Number

JBE 05-427

ISBN

1891853511 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2002010243

OCLC

50124414

Title

Battling resistance to antibiotics and pesticides : an economic approach / edited by Ramanan Laxminarayan.

Imprint

Washington, DC : Resources for the Future, c2003.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats

Also available on the Internet.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

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Laxminarayan, Ramanan.

Research Call Number

JBE 05-427