Post–COVID-19, How Will We Be Better?

Danny Quah

Chapter 22 in Impact of COVID-19 on Asian Economies and Policy Responses, 2021, pp 159-166 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: More so than past financial crises, the pandemic is a spur to societies to focus on the really big tradeoffs in life.During the Great Plague of London of 1665, as a social-distancing measure, Cambridge University temporarily sent everyone home. One of the university’s students, Isaac Newton, took literally “Work from Home”. During the lockdown, sitting in his family’s Lincolnshire house, 23-year-old Newton invented calculus, and discovered the laws of optics and light, and of universal gravitation…

Keywords: COVID-19; Pandemic; Coronavirus; Lockdowns; Supply Shock; Demand Shock; Financial Distress; Global Value Chain; Global Supply Chains; Public Policy; International Trade; Debt; Post-COVID-19; Liquidity Crisis; International Trade; Policy Response; Policy Uncertainty; Public Health; Big Data; Pandemic Dilemma (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F02 F4 H12 I15 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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