Unit 1 - Political Economy Approaches to AMR and Infectious Diseases Research

Additional Resources

Additional Reading

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On Course Context

  1. How Humanity Unleashed a Flood of New Diseases- What do Covid-19, Ebola, Lyme and AIDS have in common? They jumped to humans from animals after we started destroying habitats and ruining ecosystems. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/magazine/animal-disease-covid.html (link)
  2. Laurence S. J. Roope, Richard D. Smith, Koen B. Pouwels, James Buchanan, Lucy Abel, Peter Eibich, Christopher C. Butler, Pui San Tan, A. Sarah Walker, Julie V. Robotham, Sarah Wordsworth, 2019, The challenge of antimicrobial resistance: What economics can contribute, Science https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6435/eaau4679/tab-e-letters (link)
  3. Smith, K. F., Goldberg, M., Rosenthal, S., Carlson, L., Chen, J., Chen, C., & Ramachandran, S. (2014). Global rise in human infectious disease outbreaks. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 11(101), 20140950. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2014.0950   (link)
  4. Booth, D., Williams, G., Duncan, A., Unsworth, S., Landell-Mills, P., Cammack, D., 2009. Political Economy Analysis How To Note. DFID. Available at: https://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/5866.pdf (link)

Ontological and Epistemological Roots of Economics
  1. Bronk, R. (2011). Epistemological difficulties with neoclassical economics. Southern Economic Association. Available at : http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/39423/1/Epistemological_difficulties_with_neoclassical_economies_(LSERO).pdf (link)
  2. Dow S (2003) Critical Realism and Economics. In: Downward P (ed.). Applied Economics and the Critical Realist Critique. Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology, 2, London: Routledge, pp. 12-26. Available at: https://storre.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/25182/1/2003%20downward%20CR%20methodology.pdf (link)
  3. MOON, K. and BLACKMAN, D. (2014), A Guide to Understanding Social Science Research for Natural Scientists. Conservation Biology, 28: 1167-1177. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12326 (link)
  4. Phillips, N., 2017. Power and inequality in the global political economy. International Affairs 93, 429–444. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iix019 (link)