Author (Person) |
Wolfgang Eibner
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Publisher |
Mattimar, Remove term: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag
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Series Title |
Remove term: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy
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Series Details |
Volume 29, 1-2, Pages 71-99
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Publication Date |
11/04/2021 |
ISSN |
2228-1878 |
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Abstract
The corona pandemic is keeping the world under its spell: time for an economic and political stocktaking. The article covers the following topics: Why is the current pandemic leading to such harsh government responses worldwide and also in industrialized countries? Is the reason for this a deadly pandemic or is it rather a neoliberal cost-minimizing health care system that saves costs ignoring any consequences for its efficiency? Are the previous harsh measures of the countries' governments to restrict social and economic life scientifically epidemiologically analyzed and thus expedient, or is the state acting primarily fear-based: So is the sense of proportion given to all the measures to combat the pandemic that deeply interfere with our social freedoms? What will be the central economic costs of the economic and social lockdown and thus the consequences for our economy, for our civil rights and our free society?
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Source Link |
Link to Main Source
https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/TPEP/article/view/18343
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Subject Categories |
Health
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Keywords |
corona, corona pandemic, costs of lockdown, educational deficits following lockdown, freedom, fundamental rights, lockdown, mortality of Corona
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