Epidemiology has been a cornerstone of public health policy in western societies for more than 150 years. It can perhaps be traced back in its modern form to 1850 when the Epidemiology Society of London was created to track and…
Month: March 2020
In the short-run we may all be dead: defining the principles of Covidnomics
In 1890, Cambridge Professor Alfred Marshall published Principles of Economics, considered the first complete economics text book. Arguably, it’s the source of everything the discipline comprises. Marshall’s key idea was distilled into a graph where demand and supply curves intersected…
Sunak’s budget is history’s first virus-proof economic plan
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak’s first budget, which called for the biggest increase in British public spending for 25 years, is a seminal moment for economic policymakers. The plan for next financial year that he announced in the…