Economics, COVID-19, and the Entangled Political Economy of Public Health.

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  • Author(s): WAGNER, RICHARD E.
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    Independent Review. Spring2021, Vol. 25 Issue 4, p489-501. 13p.
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      THE INDEPENDENT REVIEW ECONOMICS AND COVID-19 + 501 Patrick, Meg, and Richard E. Wagner. RICHARD E. WAGNER ithout doubt, coronavirtls disease 2019 (COVID-19) presents problems of public health. Within an entangled system of political economy, the imperatives of political competition will unavoidably intrude from two directions into the Republic ofScience: politics will intrude into science, but science will also intrude into politics. This assembly can take place, as Ronald Coase (1974) illustrated for lighthouses and as Rosolino Candela and Vincent Geloso Richard E. Wagner is Harris Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics Hayck Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at George Mason University. [Extracted from the article]
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