Description
In this book, economist Orhan Erdem examines the central social lessons gleaned from COVID-19 and from other pandemics at various points in history. key social learnings from COVID-19 and other pandemics throughout human history. The chapters explore how global pandemics reshape social structures, daily life, and collective behavior.
Drawing on examples from across history, the book synthesizes major scholarly insights and considers how societies can mitigate similarly disruptive responses in the future. The text is organized around core dimensions of human life: healthcare, politics, education, community values, and innovation. The resulting text provides literary and historical examples that outline the enduring aftershocks of pandemics on social life, educational systems, economic policy, and social systems.
Introduction: A Century of Medical Folly.- More of the same with COVID-19.- Vaccine rollout.- Economically Yours.- Politically Yours:This chapter focuses on the political consequences of COVID-19.- .- Socially Yours: This chapter focuses on the social and cultural consequences of the pandemic.- Technologically Yours: One of the legacies of the pandemic has been the digital transformation.
Orhan Erdem is Assistant Professor of Finance at Puri School of Business at Rockford University, USA. Previously, he worked at the Istanbul Stock Exchange (Borsa Istanbul). He has a PhD in economics from Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain. He is the author of After the Crash (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Erdem's research focuses on health economics and reactionary trends within economies.
