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The Pandemic Information Gap: The Brutal Economics of COVID-19
COVID-19 is caused by a virus. The COVID-19 pandemic is caused by a lack of good information. A pandemic is essentially an information problem: this is the enlightening and provocative idea at the heart of this book. If we solve the information problem, argues economist Joshua Gans, we can defeat the virus. For example, when we don't know who is infected, we have to act as if everyone is infected. If we actively manage the information problem--if we know who is infected and with whom they had contact--we can suppress the virus or buy time for vaccine development.
This is an expanded version of an eBook originally published as Economics in the Age of COVID-19.
Book Details
- Publisher: MIT Press
- Publish Date: Nov 10th, 2020
- Pages: 216
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.90in - 6.00in - 0.60in - 0.57lb
- EAN: 9780262539128
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • General• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)• Engineering (General)
About the Author
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What people are saying
#Podcasts, #audiobooks, and more. From the makers of @LitHub. #BookRadio 📚🎧
As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in March, a self-isolating and easily distracted economist, Joshua Gans, resolved to take himself in hand. Listen to the evolution of The Pandemic Information Gap: The Brutal Economics of COVID-19 on @NewBooksNetwork. https://t.co/O2or10v59F
Praise for this book
--Business Insider
Praise for Economics in the Age of COVID-19
"It's a shame that policymakers did not have books such as Joshua Gans's Economics in the Age of COVID-19 to lay out the issues for them in January."
--Nature
"The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a number of areas where government was unprepared despite years of preparation, but it has also revealed a very un-governmental nimbleness in responding to the economics of the pandemic-induced recession. Economist Joshua Gans says there was no pandemics playbook on how to keep an economy running in a situation like this, and despite the real hardships many are facing today, policymakers have made more right decisions than wrong to this point."
--Public Radio Tulsa
"Written in an unpretentious conversational style, Economics in the Age of Covid-19 (Gans) provides an accessible overview of the past, present, and future economic choices confronting nations grappling against the viral pandemic of Covid-19."
--Postdigital Science and Education
What people are saying
#Podcasts, #audiobooks, and more. From the makers of @LitHub. #BookRadio 📚🎧
As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in March, a self-isolating and easily distracted economist, Joshua Gans, resolved to take himself in hand. Listen to the evolution of The Pandemic Information Gap: The Brutal Economics of COVID-19 on @NewBooksNetwork. https://t.co/O2or10v59F