Module 7: Pharmaceuticals

Reading

Required:

Santerre, R. E., & Neun, S. P. chapter 14

Johnson-Lans chapter 11

Recommended: Lakdawalla, D., & Sood, N. (2007). The Welfare Effects of Public Drug Insurance. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series, No. 13501.

Handouts

Assignments

Videos

Megan McCardle on Antibiotics

Dean Baker on Patents and distortions for drugs

Links

Me Too Drugs and the Gold-mine problem.

Off label use

The FDA and old Drugs