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Summer Reading: Duke Authors Hot New Books
Published June 16, 2025 Tags Faculty Scholars Richard A. Horvitz Distinguished Professor of Law Professor of Law Professor of Philosophy Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy Professor in the Department of Economics View Scholars@Duke Profile Andrew W.
Using Game Theory to Advance the Pandemic Agreement
When a new pathogen with pandemic potential emerges in a low- or middle-income country (LMIC), sharing that pathogen's genetic sequencing data (GSD) with the world allows others, predominantly based in high-income countries (HICs), to rapidly develop vaccines against the rising threat. Should vaccine manufacturers be mandated to share some of the resulting doses with LMICs?
Social Connectedness and Information Markets
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Why US Should Help European Efforts to Fix SEP Licensing
ADVERTISEMENT Don't want ads? Subscribe or login now. By David McAdams and David Katz (October 19, 2023, 4:58 PM EDT) -- The U.S. Patent Office, the National Institute of Standards and the International Trade Administration are all currently seeking input to establish U.S. policy on foreign standard-essential patent licensing regulatory regimes — after the European Commission proposed a regulation to reform SEP licensing....
What game theory can tell us about the war in Ukraine
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is 5 months old, and no clear end is in sight. As the invasion turns into a long-term war, it's time to think strategically about what can be done now to manage and contain the threat in the future. As economists specializing in behavioral economics and game theory, we teach strategic concepts from game theory to our business students.
Op-Ed: What game theory can tell us about the war in Ukraine
Members of the Ukrainian Army's mobile evacuation unit treat a wounded soldier on a road near Lysychansk. (Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP via Getty Images) Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is five months old, and no clear end is in sight. As the invasion turns into a long-term war, it’s time to think strategically about what can be done now to manage and contain the threat in the future.
The economics of managing evolution
Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Troy Day , David A. Kennedy, Andrew F. Read, David McAdams Troy Day, David A. Kennedy, Andrew F. Read, David McAdams Published: November 16, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001409 Figures Abstract Humans are altering biological systems at unprecedented rates, and these alterations often have longer-term evolutionary impacts. Most obvious is the spread of resistance to pesticides and antibiotics.
The Blossoming of Economic Epidemiology
Annual Review of Economics Vol. 13:- (Volume publication date August 2021) Review in Advance first posted online on May 24, 2021. (Changes may still occur before final publication.) https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-082120-122900 David McAdams Fuqua School of Business and Department of Economics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA; email: Abstract Infectious diseases, ideas, new products, and other infectants spread in epidemic fashion through social contact.
Resistance diagnostics as a public health tool to combat antibiotic resistance: A model-based evaluation
Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Subject Areas ? For more information about PLOS Subject Areas, click here. We want your feedback. Do these Subject Areas make sense for this article? Click the target next to the incorrect Subject Area and let us know. Thanks for your help! Opportunistic pathogens Antibiotics Antibiotic resistance Drug therapy Pathogens Bacterial pathogens Diagnostic medicine Drug discovery
A Wall Won’t Secure the U.S.-Mexico Border, but Economic Policy Could
President Trump campaigned on a promise to “build a great, great wall on our southern border.” After he was inaugurated as president, his administration said it was considering taxing imports from Mexico to cover the estimated cost of $21.6 billion. (That Department of Homeland Security estimate is roughly double Trump’s price tag of $8–$12 billion; others peg the cost much higher).
Development of a Freeze-Dried, Heat-Stable Influenza Subunit Vaccine Formulation
Copyright: © 2016 Flood et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Data Availability: Data are available from the stability studies and immunogenicity study, and can be accessed at: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/CFK8Z or osf.io/dr4qu. The authors can be contacted at dchen@path.org.
Applying Game Theory to the Supreme Court Confirmation Fight
“Politics is not a game,” Winston Churchill once said. “It is an earnest business.” And yet like any business, politics is rife with strategic challenges and opportunities that game theory can help elucidate. With that in mind, let us turn our attention to the latest glaring example of political business not getting done: the still-unfilled seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. First, a quick reminder of how we got here.
The Right Way to Pay Ransoms to Terrorists
The good news is there is a way to change this game, to turn the tables on terrorist kidnappers and undermine the kidnap economy. Law enforcement already offers a model for finding criminals whose illegal activities are so secretive that they cannot possibly be found by any amount of detective work — namely, business cartels. Throughout the 1980s, federal investigators did not catch a single major business cartel, despite having a whole division at the Department of Justice devoted to the task.
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