Sunday, April 12, 2009

Unit 1: External benefits from TB drugs

A great freakonomics article

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/an-ingenious-approach-to-drug-compliance/

a) What are the private benefits of taking the TB drugs?
b) What are the external benefits of taking the drugs?
c) Explain why the external benefits are greater than the private benefits
d) How successful do you think the suggested "pay per pee" a[[roach will be in maximising the external benefit?

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