Battling Resistance to Antibiotics and Pesticides: An Economic Approach (Hardcover)

Contributors About This Book Introduction: On the Economics of Resistance PART I. Issues of Optimal Management of Resistance 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 PART II. The Impact of Resistance 5. The Impact of Resistance on Antibiotic Demand in Patients with Ear Infection 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?Some 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 and Rational Option Approaches to Decisionmaking Beno?t 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 Pesticide Resistance: An Epidemiological Perspective Christopher A. Gilligan PART III. The Behavior of Firms 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 Management R. David Simpson Index About the Editor