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The Covid-19 Pandemic

A Public Choice View

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Authors:
  1. Panagiotis Karadimas

    1. Athens, Greece

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  • Evaluates public policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic through a public choice lens
  • Uses Covid-19 policy as a framework to compare public interest theory and public choice theory
  • Reviews the pandemic-related literature on medicine and economics

Part of the book series: Studies in Public Choice (SIPC, volume 42)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-7

  3. Viral Mitigation: Weak Theoretical Underpinnings

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    Pages 9-58

  4. The World Stampeded: From Mass Hysteria to Prolonged Mass Hysteria

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    Pages 59-70

  5. Tradeoffs and Knock-On Effects

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    Pages 71-95

  6. Public Choice Theory: An Explanation of the Pandemic Policy Responses

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    Pages 97-132

  7. Epilogue

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    Pages 133-134
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This monograph evaluates public policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic through a public choice lens. The book compares two prominent, albeit mutually exclusive, theories in social sciences—public interest theory and public choice theory—and explores how their predictions perform within the framework of the Covid-19 pandemic. The chapters present different pandemic policies alongside empirical data in order to draw conclusions about their efficacy, and, in turn, draw conclusions about the veracity of each theory. By the end of the volume, the reader will be able to draw their own conclusions about whether the pandemic policy responses served the public interest, as public interest theory suggests, or the personal interests of the politicians who implemented them, as public choice theory holds.

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  • Athens, Greece

    Panagiotis Karadimas

About the author

Panagiotis Karadimas received his PhD in philosophy of science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. His research interests include scientific explanation, theory of science, and philosophy of social sciences.

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