Hiding the Elephant: The Tragedy of COVID Policy and Its Economist Apologists
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- Gigi Foster & Paul Frijters, 2024. "Hiding the elephant: The tragedy of COVID policy and its economist apologists," Australian Economic Papers, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 63(1), pages 106-144, March.
- Foster, Gigi & Frijters, Paul, 2024. "Hiding the elephant: the tragedy of COVID policy and its economist apologists," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 122384, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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- Frijters,Paul, 2013. "An Economic Theory of Greed, Love, Groups, and Networks," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781107026278.
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Keywords
COVID-19; economics profession; WELLBY; welfare; health policy; Australia;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
- A11 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Role of Economics; Role of Economists
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2022-06-13 (Health Economics)
- NEP-SOG-2022-06-13 (Sociology of Economics)
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