ABSTRACT
Earlier chapters have described the externalities generated by antibiotic overuse and insufficient infection control and have made the case for why individual actors (including patients, physicians, and hospital administrators) may lack sufficient incentives to manage for resistance. In the absence of our ability to assign strict liability for antibiotic overuse or lack of infection control to those different actors, the market failure evident in the negative externalities provides a strong rationale for government involvement to ensure that antibiotics are produced and used in a sustainable manner.
