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The Pandemic Information Gap

by Joshua Gans
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Why solving the information problem should be at the core of our pandemic response: essential reading about the long-term implications of our current crisis.
COVID-19 is caused by a virus. The COVID-19 pandemic is caused by a lack of good information. A pandemic is essentially an information problem: this is the enlightening and provocative idea at the heart of this book. If we solve the information problem, argues economist Joshua Gans, we can defeat the virus. For example, when we don't know who is infected, we have to act as if everyone is infected. If we actively manage the information problem—if we know who is infected and with whom they had contact—we can suppress the virus or buy time for vaccine development.
This is an expanded version of an eBook originally published as Economics in the Age of COVID-19.
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Publisher: MIT Press

Kindle Book

  • Release date: November 10, 2020

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  • ISBN: 9780262362818
  • Release date: November 10, 2020

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  • ISBN: 9780262362818
  • File size: 435 KB
  • Release date: November 10, 2020

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Business Medical Politics Nonfiction

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English

Why solving the information problem should be at the core of our pandemic response: essential reading about the long-term implications of our current crisis.
COVID-19 is caused by a virus. The COVID-19 pandemic is caused by a lack of good information. A pandemic is essentially an information problem: this is the enlightening and provocative idea at the heart of this book. If we solve the information problem, argues economist Joshua Gans, we can defeat the virus. For example, when we don't know who is infected, we have to act as if everyone is infected. If we actively manage the information problem—if we know who is infected and with whom they had contact—we can suppress the virus or buy time for vaccine development.
This is an expanded version of an eBook originally published as Economics in the Age of COVID-19.
Expand title description text
Business Medical Politics Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    MIT Press

    Kindle Book
    Release date: November 10, 2020

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9780262362818
    Release date: November 10, 2020

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9780262362818
    File size: 435 KB
    Release date: November 10, 2020

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  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English