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Covid-19

The Case for Lockdown: in Italy’s Lombardy, It Can Reduce Covid-19 Potential Fatalities from 160,000 to 25,000

Carlo Favero
According to an analysis by Bocconi University professor Carlo Favero, the number of people infected with the coronavirus in Lombardy, Northern Italy, is 120,000, while...
Covid-19

Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Walmart, Opioids, Oil Prices (and Coronavirus)

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.  Oh my goodness, say it isn't so:...
Covid-19

The Economics of the Covid-19 Bailout: a Webinar

ProMarket writers
Princeton Professor Markus Brunnermeier and Nellie Liang, the former director of the Division of Financial Stability at the Federal Reserve, discuss the legacy of policy...
Covid-19

Testing People and Targeted Isolation: How to Save More Lives (and the American Economy)

Paul Romer
Nobel laureate Paul Romer's model shows that if we use a test to determine who gets put into isolation, the fraction of the population...
Covid-19

A Special Capitalisn’t Episode: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Economic Shutdown

ProMarket writers
One of the prominent economic debates to emerge during the coronavirus outbreak has been whether to continue with shelter-in-place measures that are hurting the...
Covid-19

Chile Reaches Its Greenspan Moment

Daniel Matamala
"I am in a state of shocked disbelief," former Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan said during the 2008 crisis, before confessing: "I found a...
Covid-19

Has Coronavirus Brought Back the Nation-State in Europe? No, Just the Need for Public Authority

Jan Zielonka
The vindication of the public sphere does not herald the return of nation-states to their past glory. This is bad news not only for...
Covid-19

From Most No-Brainer to Most Complicated: A List of Policy Proposals to Mitigate the Virus’ Impact

Tyler Cowen
Policymakers need to figure out which sectors we wish to keep up and running (food, health care), which sectors we want to contract rapidly...
Covid-19

This Is Not a Financial Crisis, So Why Should We Bailout Wall Street (Again)?

Matt Stoller
Republican and Democratic Senators reached a deal on a $2 trillion bill to help businesses and people hit by the coronavirus outbreak. But the...
Antitrust and Competition

America’s Broken Health Care System Is the Biggest Obstacle to Containing the Coronavirus

Asher Schechter
Over the past few weeks, it has become abundantly clear that the US health care system is uniquely ill-equipped to deal with a crisis...
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