Vaccine Economics: What Price Human Life?

Vaccine economics: what price human life?

IN THE AGE OF GOOGLE “IMAGES,” A FEW KEYSTROKES REVEAL THE FORGOTTEN HU man experience in the prevaccination era of public health. With only a few search terms— such as polio iron lungs, tetanus spasms, smallpox scars, or meningitis amputations—we receive vivid reminders of the horrendous price of ignorance, paid before we knew how to prevent infectious diseases through vaccination campaigns a...

Price Theory in Economics∗

This paper reviews topics in price theory such as rational choice, Walrasian equilibria, complete and incomplete markets, externalities and nonmarket goods, strategic pricing with complete and incomplete information, and some behavioral anomalies. Contains index.

What Price Drug Use? The Contribution of Economics to an Evidence-Based Drugs Policy

This paper presents a review of the recent economics literature in the area of illicit drug use. Particular attention is paid to the economics of addiction and the rational addiction model, the welfare economics framework for analysing the social costs of drug use, and the attempts that have been made by economists to evaluate recent or proposed policy interventions. A dominant theme in this re...

What Price Screening?—I

What Price Medical Care?

I. E. Bush, C. L. Cope, A. Gowenlock, N. J. Holness, V. H. James, A. E. Kellie, C. J. 0. R. Morris, R. Neher, E. C. Osborn, R. V. Short, E. R. Smith, M. Stack-Dunne, J. F. Tait, S. A. S. Tait, M. Vogt and I. D. P. Wootton. Through the co-ordinated efforts of these scientists, the proceedings present a timely exposition of the current status of steroid chromatography on filter paper. Detailed co...