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Pandemics show us what government is for

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  • Susan Erikson

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Growth-at-any-cost economics has health costs, a reality the COVID-19 pandemic brings into sharp relief. Governments must manage the tension between economics and health, but they should not stray from their original mandate to protect people. Too much dependence on the private sector weakened pandemic response, argues Susan Erikson.

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  • Susan Erikson, 2020. "Pandemics show us what government is for," Nature Human Behaviour, Nature, vol. 4(5), pages 441-442, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nathum:v:4:y:2020:i:5:d:10.1038_s41562-020-0871-4
    DOI: 10.1038/s41562-020-0871-4
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    1. Susan Erikson, 2021. "COVID‐Apps: Misdirecting Public Health Attention in a Pandemic," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 12(S6), pages 97-100, July.
    2. Shah Muhammad Kamran & Mahvish Kanwal Khaskhely & Abdelmohsen A. Nassani & Mohamed Haffar & Muhammad Moinuddin Qazi Abro, 2022. "Social Entrepreneurship Opportunities via Distant Socialization and Social Value Creation," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(6), pages 1-25, March.
    3. Khemraj, Tarron & Yu, Sherry, 2020. "Human capital and the COVID-19 pandemic," MPRA Paper 101262, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Lou, Loretta, 2021. "Casino capitalism in the era of COVID-19: examining Macau’s pandemic response," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 111026, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    5. Fakhar Shahzad & Jianguo Du & Imran Khan & Adnan Fateh & Muhammad Shahbaz & Adnan Abbas & Muhammad Umair Wattoo, 2020. "Perceived Threat of COVID-19 Contagion and Frontline Paramedics’ Agonistic Behaviour: Employing a Stressor–Strain–Outcome Perspective," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(14), pages 1-22, July.
    6. Gaoyong Li & Xin Zhang & Ge Zhang, 2022. "How the 5G Enabled the COVID-19 Pandemic Prevention and Control: Materiality, Affordance, and (De-)Spatialization," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(15), pages 1-22, July.
    7. Yao Lu & Zheng Ji & Xiaoqi Zhang & Yanqiao Zheng & Han Liang, 2020. "Re-Thinking the Role of Government Information Intervention in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Agent-Based Modeling Analysis," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(1), pages 1-17, December.

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