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Battling resistance to antibiotics and pesticides : an economic approach
- Title
- Battling resistance to antibiotics and pesticides : an economic approach / edited by Ramanan Laxminarayan.
- Publication
- Washington, DC : Resources for the Future, [2003], ©2003.
- Supplementary Content
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- Additional Authors
- Laxminarayan, Ramanan.
- Description
- xix, 377 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Subjects
- 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 -- 1. Dynamics of Antibiotic Use: Ecological versus Interventionist Strategies To Manage Resistance to Antibiotics / James E. Wilen and Siwa Msangi -- 2. Using Antibiotics When Resistance Is Renewable / Robert Rowthorn and Gardner M. Brown -- 3. 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 -- 4. 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 -- 5. 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 -- 6. 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 -- 7. 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 -- 8. 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 -- 9. 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 -- 10. 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 -- 11. The Interaction of Dynamic Problems and Dynamic Policies: Some Economics of Biotechnology / Timo Goeschl and Timothy Swanson -- 12. 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.
- ISBN
- 1891853511 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002010243
- OCLC
- ocm50124414
- SCSB-5096390
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries