UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak is working on a 10-year post-Covid economic plan It’s a year since the Covid-19 mutation started spreading and governments everywhere acted to contain it. More than 2m people globally have since died due…
Category: Coronavirus
What does epidemiology have in common with economics? Imperfect models
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…
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…