The Pandemic Information Gap: The Brutal Economics of COVID-19

by Joshua Gans

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262539128
• ISBN13: 9780262539128
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher