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Pandemic Information Gap and the Brutal Economics of COVID-19

By Joshua Gans

Book information

Publisher
MIT Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780262539128
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1475300 bytes)
Series
Design Thinking, Design Theory
Edition
Updated
Pages
160\77
Topic
Other Social Sciences
Time added
2020-11-11 07:43:44

Description

A guide to the pandemic economy: essential reading about the long-term implications of our current crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a firehose of information (much of it wrong) and an avalanche of opinions (many of them ill-founded). Most of us are so distracted by the everyday awfulness that we don't see the broader issues in play. In this book, economist Joshua Gans steps back from the short-term chaos to take a clear and systematic look at how economic choices are being made in response to COVID-19. He shows that containing the virus and pausing the economy--without letting businesses fail and people lose their jobs--are the necessary first steps.

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