Vaccination and the Theory of Games.

Bauch, C. T., & Earn, D. J. D. (2004). Vaccination and the Theory of Games. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101(36), 13391-13394.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2004

DOI

10.1073/pnas.0403823101

Link

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0403823101

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economics_finance

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Primes

• Free Riding
  • This is rational individual behavior that undermines collective protection, as Bauch and Earn (2004) formalized in their game-theoretic analysis of voluntary vaccination decisions.

    This sourceGame-theoretic proof that individual self-interest under nonzero vaccine risk prevents complete eradication; directly supports the vaccination/herd-immunity free-riding claim.

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