The book presents a basic introduction to epidemiology from the perspective of economics, using economic modeling to better understand and describe how infectious disease spreads. Three main elements are introduced: epidemiology, social network analysis, and the economics needed to model the...

We develop an agent-based computational model for the spatial spread of an epi- demic to explore how the inter-regional variability in vaccine coverage a§ects the global epidemic size as well as the individual risk of infection. Our agent-based model imple- ments a standard SIR model of...