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Even in the rich world, death from infection still looms; MRSA alone kills thousands every year. Whom to blame for all of this depends on whom you ask. Patients, physicians, hospitals, drug companies, and even regulators have all taken their turn in the dock. But to an economist, when it’s everyone’s fault, it’s really no one’s fault: what we’re witnessing is not a personal failure, but a market failure.