Alternate strategies for managing resistance to antibiotics and pesticides

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter

doi:10.1007/bf03353944

Environ Econ Policy Stud

2005

DOI: 10.1007/bf03353944

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Alternate strategies for managing resistance to antibiotics and pesticides

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal

Peter Nijkamp

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A note on common infections and the non-antibiotic treatment option

Batabyal

2006

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Recently, Batabyal and Nijkamp (Environ Econ Policy Stud 7:39-51, 2005) have used a theoretical model of antibiotic use to study the relative merits of interventionist (antibiotics) and non-interventionist (no antibiotics) treatment options. A key assumption in their paper is that the default treatment option is the interventionist option. Because there are several instances in which this assumption is invalid, in this paper, we suppose that the default treatment option is the non-interventionist option. Specifically, we first derive the long run average cost of treating a common infection such as acute otitis media (AOM). Next, we show that there is a particular tolerance level and that when a physician uses this tolerance level to determine when to administer the non-antibiotic medicine, the long run average cost of treating the common infection under study is minimized. 1 The reader should note that the problem of resistance occurs not only in the case of antibiotic use but also in the case of pesticide use.

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A note on common infections and the non-antibiotic treatment option

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2006

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A safe minimum standard, the elasticity of substitution, and the cleanup of the Ganges in Varanasi

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Despite repeated calls for a thorough cleanup of water pollution in the Ganges river, there are only two papers in the social sciences by Batabyal and Beladi (2017, 2019) that have shed theoretical light on this cleanup problem and its connection to the sustainability of tourism in Varanasi. Hence, we extend the above‐mentioned analyses and focus on two specific questions. First, we introduce the notion of a safe minimum standard (SMS) into the study and show how to analyze a probabilistic model of the Ganges cleanup problem when the SMS is accounted for. Second, for a representative citizen of Varanasi, we study how the magnitude of the elasticity of substitution between a composite consumption good and water quality in the Ganges—modeled by the SMS—affects the tradeoff between consumption and water quality maintenance.

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2005

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Alternate strategies for managing resistance to antibiotics and pesticides

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

A note on common infections and the non-antibiotic treatment option

A note on common infections and the non-antibiotic treatment option

A safe minimum standard, the elasticity of substitution, and the cleanup of the Ganges in Varanasi

An Economist's Perspective on Technology and the Liberal Arts

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