The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Public Choice View

The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Public Choice View
ISBN-10
3031249674
ISBN-13
9783031249679
Series
The COVID-19 Pandemic
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
142
Language
English
Published
2023-02-10
Publisher
Springer Nature
Author
Panagiotis Karadimas

Description

This monograph evaluates public policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic through a public choice lens. The book compares two prominent, albeit mutually exclusive, theories in social sciences—public interest theory and public choice theory—and explores how their predictions perform within the framework of the Covid-19 pandemic. The chapters present different pandemic policies alongside empirical data in order to draw conclusions about their efficacy, and, in turn, draw conclusions about the veracity of each theory. By the end of the volume, the reader will be able to draw their own conclusions about whether the pandemic policy responses served the public interest, as public interest theory suggests, or the personal interests of the politicians who implemented them, as public choice theory holds.

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