Neoliberal Ebola: Modeling Disease Emergence from Finance to Forest and Farm
Robert G. Wallace (Ed.)
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Hardback. Editor(s): Wallace, Robert G.; Wallace, Rodrick. Num Pages: 111 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations, 15 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: KCA; MBNS; MJCJ; PSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 242 x 13. Weight in Grams: 328.
This volume compiles five papers modeling the effects of neoliberal economics on the emergence of Ebola and its aftermath. Neoliberalism is currently the world's primary economic philosophy. It centers international relations around globalizing laissez-faire economics for multinational companies, promoting free trade, deregulating economic markets, and shifting state expenditures in favor of private property. The multidisciplinary teams represented here place both Ebola Makona, the Zaire Ebola virus variant that has infected 28,000 in West Africa, and Ebola Reston, which is currently emerging in industrial hog farms in the Philippines and China, within a multi-plank modeling framework. Using a stochastic extinction model ... Read more
This volume compiles five papers modeling the effects of neoliberal economics on the emergence of Ebola and its aftermath. Neoliberalism is currently the world's primary economic philosophy. It centers international relations around globalizing laissez-faire economics for multinational companies, promoting free trade, deregulating economic markets, and shifting state expenditures in favor of private property. The multidisciplinary teams represented here place both Ebola Makona, the Zaire Ebola virus variant that has infected 28,000 in West Africa, and Ebola Reston, which is currently emerging in industrial hog farms in the Philippines and China, within a multi-plank modeling framework. Using a stochastic extinction model ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
328g
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319409399
SKU
V9783319409399
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About Robert G. Wallace (Ed.)
Robert G. Wallace, PhD, is a public health phylogeographer presently visiting the University of Minnesota's Institute for Global Studies. His research has addressed the evolution and spread of influenza, the agroeconomics of Ebola, the social geography of HIV/AIDS in New York City, the emergence of Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus out of Ugandan prehistory, and the evolution of infection life history in ... Read more
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