The Economics of Pandemics: Exploring Globally Shared Experiences

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 14th 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.