Recent contributions in comparative political economy have made much of the 'growth model perspective', presenting it as a way to 'rethink political economy'. This paper argues that the origins of the growth model approach can be found in contributions made by Michel Freyssenet in the framework...

In this paper a two-phase pandemic-economic model is proposed, with phase-specific modeling and policy variables - as suggested by the chronicle of pandemic and economic policy developments over the period 2020-2021. In a first phase, the spread of a pandemic disease is the primary concern of...