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Coronavirus and the economic value of human life

25 June 2020

The Covid-19 crisis has provided many grim examples of some familiar problems in health economics and cost-benefit analysis, and of the ‘tragic choices’ that …

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Inflation: The next threat?

18 June 2020

The policy reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic will increase budget deficits massively in all the world’s leading countries. The deficits will to a significant …

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The Road to Post-Pandemic Recovery

18 June 2020

Thus far, three recovery programs have been proposed in response to the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The first recovery program was …

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Model Behaviour: How economists can shape the post-lockdown word

14 May 2020

The seminal work on epidemiological models was carried out in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The models have developed substantially since then, but …

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The problem is not testing capacity but testing participation

11 May 2020

This paper argues that testing participation – and not testing capacity – is the biggest obstacle to a successful “test and isolate” strategy, as …

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Going Viral: The History and Economics of Pandemics

29 April 2020

Pandemics are a recurring feature of human history. In the modern world, since the 1770s, we have had a series of pandemics, with a …

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Post-coronavirus, how should the West approach China?

Stephen Davies // 3 July 2020

Covid–19 has done more than cause a medical and economic crisis. It is provoking a major reorientation of the foreign policy of both the United …

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“Next Generation EU” spending plan: Towards strengthening or weakening the EU in the long run?

Olympios Raptis // 1 July 2020

While the media, right and left-wing parties and the average newspaper reader celebrate in anticipation of “helicopter money” from Brussels, or otherwise the so-called …

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The end of the liberal international order

Jorge Torres // 29 June 2020

If there seems to be any consensus among academics it is that the dominant Western liberal international order is coming to an end. With …

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Do low emissions zones really work?

Francisco Nunes // 25 June 2020

At the moment, the general sense of alarm caused by the supposed consequences of climate change is something that is shared by all Western …

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The issue at stake was not to choose between lives and the economy

Nicolas Marques // 23 June 2020

We often hear that managing a crisis like coronavirus depends on societal choices. The choice would be to save lives or economies. Health and …

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The fake American stimulation: an economic analysis of Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act

Nikolai G. Wenzel // 19 June 2020

We almost pity American federal and state elected officials for having to deal with the situation caused by COVID-19. Overnight, social media users have …

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