Opinion | Will We Flunk Coronavirus Economics? - The New York Times - 0 views
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While a deep slump is unavoidable, however, good policies could do a lot to minimize the amount of hardship Americans experience. The problem is that the U.S. political landscape has long been dominated by an anti-government ideology that left us unprepared, intellectually and institutionally, for this crisis
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What should we be doing? Serious economists have already reached a rough consensus over the appropriate policy response to a pandemic.
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The immediate mission, beyond an all-out effort to contain the pandemic itself, should instead be disaster relief: generous aid to those suffering a sudden loss of income as a result of the economy’s lockdown.
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