How economists ignored the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918-20

Mauro Boianovsky, Guido Erreygers

The current COVID-19 pandemic has attracted significant attention from epidemiologists and economists alike. This differs from the 1918-19 Spanish Influenza pandemic, when academic economists hardly paid attention to its economic features, despite its very high mortality toll. We examine the reasons for that, by contrasting the ways epidemiologists and economists reacted to the Spanish Flu at the time and retrospectively within the next 25 years or so.

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Year of publication:	February 2021
Authors:	Boianovsky, Mauro ; Erreygers, Guido
Publisher:	[Durham, NC] : Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University
Subject:	Spanish Influenza \| economists \| business cycles \| epidemiologists \| labour supply \| Spanien \| Spain \| Epidemie \| Epidemic \| Arbeitsangebot \| Labour supply \| Infektionskrankheit \| Infectious disease \| Konjunktur \| Business cycle \| Ökonomen \| Economists \| Wirtschaftswissenschaft \| Economics

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 20 Seiten)
Series:	CHOPE working paper. - Durham, NC, ZDB-ID 2672713-4. - Vol. no. 2021, 01 (February 2021)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.3783854 [DOI] hdl:10419/231443 [Handle]
Classification:	B19 - History of Economic Thought through 1925. Other ; B49 - Economic Methodology. Other ; I19 - Health. Other
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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