Challenging Malaria
Five years after Ronald Ross discovered the link between malaria and mosquitos, American entomologist Leland Howard wrote of the "mosquito evil" that occurs when "everybody''s business is nobody''s business." Howard’s insight was largely ignored, but it captures what social scientists now refer to as the problem of collective action.
When this problem persists in the context of malaria, individual...
Five years after Ronald Ross discovered the link between malaria and mosquitos, American entomologist Leland Howard wrote of the "mosquito evil" that occurs when "everybody''s business is nobody''s business." Howard’s insight was largely ignored, but it captures what social scientists now refer to as the problem of collective action.
When this problem persists in the context of malaria, individual...
