The Coming Coronavirus Crisis: What Can We Learn?

Walter de Gruyter GmbH - Tập 55 Số 2 - Trang 98-104 - 2020
Matteo Lucchese1, Mario Pianta1
1Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Palazzo Strozzi, Piazza Strozzi, 50123, Firenze, Italy

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AbstractThe coronavirus pandemic is bringing with it the prospect of severe financial and economic crises. The article investigates its economic consequences in terms of financial instability, economic recession, lower incomes and policy challenges at the national and European levels. What are some of the lessons that can be learned? This article argues that health is a global public good. Public health and welfare systems are crucial alternatives to the market and universal public health is a key element of an egalitarian policy.

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