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The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a firehose of information (much of it wrong) and an avalanche of opinions (many of them ill-founded). Most of us are so distracted by the everyday awfulness that we don't see the broader issues in play. In this book, economist Joshua Gans steps back from the short-term chaos to take a clear and systematic look at how economic choices are being made in response to COVID-19. He shows that containing the virus and pausing the economy are the necessary first steps.  

Brought to you by Penguin. 'It's a foreboding,' she said. 'A knowing that something is looming around the corner. Like how when the seasons change you can smell fall in the air right before the leaves change and the wind turns cold.' In January 2020, as people started dying from a new virus in...

Der Beginn einer neuen Wirtschafts- und Finanzordnung März 2020. Angela Merkel spricht von der größten Herausforderung seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Einschränkungen des gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Lebens haben innerhalb kürzester Zeit zu Veränderungen geführt, die hierzulande...