Overview
- Maps the theoretical and methodological positions used by economists during the pandemic
- Explores the different responses to COVID-19 both between countries and continents
- Highlights the trends in economic policy induced by the pandemic
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About this book
This book examines and classifies different reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic from economists across the world. With the impacts of the pandemic experienced differently in each country, specific case studies are provided to highlight how the economics profession has responded to the challenges that have emerged from COVID-19. Key debates, such as the trade-off between health protective measures and the economic impacts of closing important sectors, are discussed, with a focus on the responses in China, the USA, Italy, France, Russia, Argentina, Brazil, India, and Palestine.
This book explores the ability of economists to respond to economic and social crises, and provides insight into the ties between economic theory and economic policy in the modern world. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in how economists have responded to the COVID-19 and what changes it might trigger.
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Keywords
- COVID19
- Economics and COVID-19
- Impact of COVID on China
- COVID and political debates in the USA
- The Italian economy and COVID
- French economics and politics and COVID
- Russia during the COVID pandemic
- Argentina during COVID and the currency shortage
- COVID and economics in Brazil
- India and wage-led COVID recovery
- Palestine and COVID
Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
"Bringing together analyses of eight countries from America, Europe and Asia, this book offers an invaluable contribution to understanding the nature and trends of the economic debate in recent years, in which the Covid pandemic led the world into panic and paralyzed national economies.
If governments' responses to the challenge of the pandemic involved interventions in markets and policies often guided more by pragmatism than by orthodox recipes, would the pandemic period mark the demise of neoliberal ideology? Would it be a point of reversal of the economic doctrines and policies that have prevailed since the late 1980s and signal the beginning of a new order?
Investigating the theoretical debate in connection with the concrete measures adopted in each country, the texts that make up this volume offer a unique and essential contribution to understanding the current trends of economic thought and answering these questions.
Hugo da Gama Cerqueira, Dean of the Faculty of Economic Sciences, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Andrés Lazzarini is a Lecturer in Economics at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Denis Melnik is Associate Professor in the Department of Theoretical Economics at the HSE University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Economists and COVID-19
Book Subtitle: Ideas, Theories and Policies During the Pandemic
Editors: Andrés Lazzarini, Denis Melnik
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05811-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05810-3Published: 19 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-05811-0Published: 18 August 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 177
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Economy/Economic Systems, Economic Policy, Development Economics, Health Economics