The Pandemic Information Solution: Overcoming the Brutal Economics of Covid-19 by Gans, Joshua
The Pandemic Information Solution: Overcoming the Brutal Economics of Covid-19 by Gans, Joshua

The Pandemic Information Solution: Overcoming the Brutal Economics of Covid-19

Covid-19 is a global pandemic inflicting large health and economic costs. In his previous book, The Pandemic...
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Author: Joshua Gans
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The Pandemic Information Solution: Overcoming the Brutal Economics of Covid-19 by Gans, Joshua

The Pandemic Information Solution: Overcoming the Brutal Economics of Covid-19

$129.30
The Pandemic Information Solution: Overcoming the Brutal Economics of Covid-19 by Gans, Joshua

The Pandemic Information Solution: Overcoming the Brutal Economics of Covid-19

$129.30
Author: Joshua Gans
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

Covid-19 is a global pandemic inflicting large health and economic costs. In his previous book, The Pandemic Information Gap: The Brutal Economics of COVID-19 (MIT Press, 2020), economist Joshua Gans explains that those costs have been so large because governments and others have lacked the information needed to control the pandemic. Unless we know who is infectious, we can't break the chains of transmission, which results in the escalation of our problems. Pandemics, he writes, are information problems.


Now, in this follow-up book, Gans outlines the solution to the information gap. By engaging in rapid, frequent screening, we can control the pandemic and restore normality. We can lower the number of cases, break chains of transmission, and make it safe for people to interact again. This will require changing our mindset about testing, gathering the right information, and matching that information to the right decisions. We have the ingredients to do all these things. We just need to put them together in a scalable and sustainable system. This book is a guide to the issues and trade-offs that policymakers and other key decision-makers need to grapple with and follow.



Author: Joshua Gans
Publisher: Endeavor Literary Press
Published: 02/08/2021
Pages: 150
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35d
ISBN: 9780995894815

About the Author
Gans, Joshua: - Joshua Gans is a professor of strategic management and the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair in Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. He has authored numerous books on innovation, including The Disruption Dilemma (MIT Press), Prediction Machines (HBR Press), Innovation + Equality (MIT Press), and Economics in the Age of COVID-19 (MIT Press). He is the chief economist of the Creative Destruction Lab and vice president (economics) of the CDL Rapid Screening Consortium.
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