May 14, 2020
The seminal work on epidemiological models was carried out in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The models have developed substantially since then, but their key drivers are still essentially those discovered nearly a century ago.
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May 11, 2020
This paper argues that testing participation – and not testing capacity – is the biggest obstacle to a successful “test and isolate” strategy, as recently proposed by Paul Romer.
May 6, 2020
There are features of our way of life and some of our economic systems that make outbreaks like Covid-19 more likely.
April 30, 2020
Much of the WHO rhetoric on COVID-19 has treated the pandemic as an unavoidable, natural disaster devoid of blame – this is absolutely not the case.
April 29, 2020
Pandemics are a recurring feature of human history. In the modern world, since the 1770s, we have had a series of pandemics, with a series of cholera ones in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and a series of five influenza ones since 1890.
April 17, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is a serious challenge for societies around the world. In response to it not only individuals are changing their behaviour, but also governments are taking various policy actions.
April 11, 2020
In recent weeks, the global impact of the coronavirus has brought a huge number of new questions to the fore.
April 9, 2020
Periods of economic crisis are a breeding ground for all sorts of populist ideas, often ideas that had been discarded in the past due to their dire practical implications.
April 8, 2020
Although the COVID-19 pandemic is by no means over, in Spain we can already start to learn some lessons that will ensure the same mistakes are not made again if we are ever unfortunate enough to face a similar situation in the future.