The Great Covid Panic: What Happened, Why, And What To Do Next
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When a novel virus swept the globe in 2020, governments worldwide responded with unprecedented lockdowns, mandates, and restrictions — but were these measures driven by science, or by something far more unsettling? The Great Covid Panic: What Happened, Why, and What to Do Next is a rigorous, unflinching autopsy of the COVID-19 era, chronicling how fear, political incentives, and mass psychology combined to produce some of the most sweeping curtailments of civil liberties in modern history. Written by three distinguished economists and public health scholars, the book dissects the policy decisions made by governments across the world, presenting a damning analysis of the cost-benefit failures that defined pandemic governance. Drawing on economics, psychology, and political science, the authors argue that societal panic — not epidemiological evidence — was the primary driver of lockdown policies, and that the collateral damage to education, mental health, and economic wellbeing was both predictable and largely ignored. The book presents a sober framework for understanding how institutions failed their citizens and instructs readers on what systemic reforms are needed to prevent future catastrophes of mass hysteria. For anyone who lived through the pandemic and sensed that something had gone profoundly wrong, this book offers the intellectual vocabulary to understand exactly what that was — and a roadmap for demanding better.
Author: Paul Frijters, Gigi Foster, Michael Baker
Format: Paperback
Published: 2021, Brownstone Institute
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
When a novel virus swept the globe in 2020, governments worldwide responded with unprecedented lockdowns, mandates, and restrictions — but were these measures driven by science, or by something far more unsettling? The Great Covid Panic: What Happened, Why, and What to Do Next is a rigorous, unflinching autopsy of the COVID-19 era, chronicling how fear, political incentives, and mass psychology combined to produce some of the most sweeping curtailments of civil liberties in modern history. Written by three distinguished economists and public health scholars, the book dissects the policy decisions made by governments across the world, presenting a damning analysis of the cost-benefit failures that defined pandemic governance. Drawing on economics, psychology, and political science, the authors argue that societal panic — not epidemiological evidence — was the primary driver of lockdown policies, and that the collateral damage to education, mental health, and economic wellbeing was both predictable and largely ignored. The book presents a sober framework for understanding how institutions failed their citizens and instructs readers on what systemic reforms are needed to prevent future catastrophes of mass hysteria. For anyone who lived through the pandemic and sensed that something had gone profoundly wrong, this book offers the intellectual vocabulary to understand exactly what that was — and a roadmap for demanding better.