Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 232 pages)
ISBN:
9781800377226
Content:
This timely book explores the neglected risk in the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, illustrating the ways in which four decades of neoliberal economic and public policy has eroded the functional capacity of states to handle catastrophic events.
Content:
Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- 1. The economics and epidemiology of epidemics and pandemics -- 2. Measures and determinants of these verity of COVID-19 -- 3. The effects and consequences of COVID-19 -- 4. Public policy response to the pandemic -- 5. Implications for democracy, militarism and international relations -- 6. Rethinking the free market doctrine -- 7. Rethinking the principles of the Washington Consensus -- 8. Rethinking healthcare and welfare -- 9. Rethinking the status quo -- 10. Epilogue -- References -- Index.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781800377219
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Moosa, Imad A., 1952 - The economics of Covid-19 Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021 ISBN 1800377215
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781800377219
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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Sociology
