LEADER 00830nam0-22003131i-450- 001 990000895250403321 005 20001010 010 $a0-582-05917-8 035 $a000089525 035 $aFED01000089525 035 $a(Aleph)000089525FED01 035 $a000089525 100 $a20001010d--------km-y0itay50------ba 101 0 $aita 105 $ay-------001yy 200 1 $aReinforced and Prestressed Masonry 210 $aNew York$cLongman S.T.$d1991 215 $ap.213$cill.$dcm 24 610 0 $aMuratura 700 1$aHendry,$bArnold W.$043736 801 0$aIT$bUNINA$gRICA$2UNIMARC 901 $aBK 912 $a990000895250403321 952 $a03 MUR.0,14$b522$fIINTC 952 $a03 CP.0,125$b544$fIINTC 959 $aIINTC 996 $aReinforced and Prestressed Masonry$9357251 997 $aUNINA DB $aING01 LEADER 04463nam 22005175 450 001 9910746970603321 005 20251008143654.0 010 $a9783031395109 010 $a3031395107 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-39510-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30757784 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30757784 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-39510-9 035 $a(CKB)28328650700041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928328650700041 100 $a20230927d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aChallenging Malaria $eThe Private and Social Incentives of Mosquito Control /$fby Byron B. Carson, III 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (243 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Carson, Byron B., III Challenging Malaria Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031395093 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Part 1: The Economic Approach to Malaria Prevention -- 1. Malaria Takes a Toll -- 2. Advancing Howard?s Insight -- Part 2: The Collective Action Problem of Malaria -- 3. The Burden of Collective Action -- 4. Incentives Can Help -- 5. Tying and Associations Help Too -- 6. Don?t Forget Firms in the Private Sector -- Part 3: Extending Private and Collective Prevention -- 7. Collective Action Can Fail -- 8. Residential Markets May be Thin -- 9. Resurgence in India, Venezuela, Nigeria -- Part 4: Revising Malaria Prevention -- 10. What of bed nets and indoor residual spraying? -- 11. A Market-based, Voluntary Approach to Malaria Prevention. . 330 $aFive years after Ronald Ross discovered the link between malaria and mosquitos, American entomologist Leland Howard wrote of the "mosquito evil" that occurs when "everybody's business is nobody's business." Howard?s insight was largely ignored, but it captures what social scientists now refer to as the problem of collective action. When this problem persists in the context of malaria, individuals under-provide prevention and suffer from a higher prevalence of malaria. Imagine a group of people trying to drain a pond where mosquitoes breed. Everyone in the group faces an incentive to free ride, which can hinder their drainage efforts. Thus, when people fail to resolve issues related to collective action, they submit to the "mosquito evil" and, potentially, to malaria. This book explores Howard?s logic, the economics of collective action, and the history, epidemiology, and public health of malaria to analyze the conditions under which people privately resolve collective action problems associated with mosquito abatement and malaria prevention. Generally, people are more likely to resolve these problems when the benefits of abatement and prevention outweigh the costs. This logic is developed into a framework and applied to historical and modern-day issues related to malaria, including the lack or abundance of private prevention in the United States and in developing areas; malaria?s resurgence in countries like China, Venezuela, and Bangladesh; and the difficulties of large-scale insecticide-treated bed net campaigns. Given this framework, we should develop a greater appreciation for entrepreneurial responses, civil society, market processes, and private forms of collective action. Byron B. Carson, III is Associate Professor of Economics and Business at Hampden-Sydney College in Hampden-Sydney, Virginia (USA). He teaches courses on introductory economics, money and banking, development economics, health economics, andurban economics. He earned a Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University and a B.A. in Economics from Rhodes College. His research interests include economic epidemiology, public choice, and Austrian economics. 606 $aEconomics 606 $aEpidemiology 606 $aPolitical Economy and Economic Systems 606 $aEpidemiology 615 0$aEconomics. 615 0$aEpidemiology. 615 14$aPolitical Economy and Economic Systems. 615 24$aEpidemiology. 676 $a614.532 700 $aCarson$b Byron B.$01433080 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910746970603321 996 $aChallenging Malaria$93578337 997 $aUNINA