Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 232 pages)
ISBN:
9781800377226
Inhalt:
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.
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781800377219
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Moosa, Imad A., 1952 - The economics of Covid-19 Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021 ISBN 1800377215
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781800377219
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Politologie
,
Soziologie
