ARTICLES AND OPEDS ABOUT THE ECONOMIC COSTS OF A PANDEMIC

• "How Chicago Economics Helped End a Pandemic", February 2020
• "How Economics is Helping End a Pandemic", National Review December 18, 2020
• Detailed breakdown of the "economic" costs used in my estimates.

• How much did "Deaths of Despair" surge during the pandemic?

• "Is the Cure Worse than the Disease?", The Hill February 6, 2021
• "Deaths of despair and the incidence of excess mortality in 2020", Vox.com January 28, 2021
• The costs of pandemic relief legislation
  • Congress Can Still Save the Recovery, Wall Street Journal April 8, 2020 (with Brian Blase)
  • Employers confirm Brian's and my predictions.
  • A short summary of provisions in the CARES Act
  • A short summary of provisions in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act
• Mulligan, Murphy and Topel. Some Basic Economics of COVID-19 Policy
• Bick and Blandin biweekly household survey patterned after the monthly CPS
• Coibion, Gorodnichenko, and Weber results from a Nielsen survey
• Operation WARP Speed, What a Deal! (with Tomas Philipson)
• Regulation during and after the pandemic
• Classics
  • White House Council of Economic Advisers. Mitigating the Impact of Pandemic Influenza through Vaccine Innovation September 2019.
  • A 1993 book by Philipson and Posner about the economics of contagious disease and why epidemiologists got it wrong.
  • A 1995 article by Philipson about why the economics costs of disease can exceed the health costs.
  • A 2008 article by Philipson and Sun about the tradeoff between safety and efficacy (of drugs, vaccines, etc.).
• Videos
  • How Chicago Economics Helped End a Pandemic (filmed December 2020)
  • Central planning during a pandemic
  • Central planning: Is COVID-19 different?