Eliminating incentives for behaviour against the public good?
How can economic approaches be used to understand and eliminate incentives for behaviour that goes against the public good, or long-term interests?

  • Laxminarayan has shown that antimicrobial resistance is strongly analogous to the problem of depletion of a natural resource, and consequently amenable to representation using models derived from environmental economics. 
  • Similarly, game-theoretical approaches have given important insight into vaccination strategies. Many other persistent hurdles to disease eradication are amenable to investigation with ideas and tools from economics.


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