The Economics of Pandemics: Exploring Globally Shared Experiences

by S. Niggol Seo

Overview

This book offers a lively account of the humanitarian, economic, societal, and planetwide impacts of the pandemics, the COVID-19 pandemic included, which are traced back to as early as the 14^th century plague pandemic. Placing the pandemics along with other globally shared resources, such as global warming, AI singularity, and high-risk physics experiments, each of the nine chapters of the book discusses the global health crises from a variety of unique standpoints, including infectious diseases, economics, governance, and public health. Based on the historical records of past pandemics and the rich data from the COVID-19 pandemic, a conceptual framework is presented for the economics of pandemics as a globally shared experience.

This book aims to critically examine salient features in the global responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, including global governance, lockdowns, radical movements, and mRNA vaccines. The book will be a valuable resource to students, researchers, and policymakers who are working in the fields of environmental economics, global-scale public goods, and health economics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030910211
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	02/12/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

S. Niggol Seo is a natural resource economist who specializes in the study of global warming and globally shared goods, currently at the Muaebak Institute of Global Warming Studies. He received a Ph.D. degree from Yale University in 2006 with a dissertation on microbehavioural economics of climate change. He has worked on various projects with the World Bank on climate change in Africa, Latin America, and Asia and held Professor positions in the UK, Spain, and Australia from 2006 to 2015.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Globally-shared Experience: An Introduction.- Chapter 2. Pandemic Economics: Essential Features and Outstanding Questions.- Chapter 3. Pandemic Analysis I: Global Governance for a Global Pandemic?.- Chapter 4. Pandemic Analysis II: Governmental Actions During the Pandemic: Lockdown or No Lockdown?.- Chapter 5. Pandemic Analysis III: The Great Reset, People’s Uprisings, and Other Radical Change Proposals.- Chapter 6. Pandemic Analysis IV: Is the COVID-19 Pandemic a Doomsday Scenario for Climate Change?.- Chapter 7. Pandemic Analysis V: The Science and Economics of a Vaccine for Ending the Pandemic.- Chapter 8. The Economics of Pandemics as a Globally-shared Experience: A Theory.- Chapter 9. Some Yet Unresolved Questions and Mysteries about the COVID-19 Pandemic.