Full Description
This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the many socio-economic challenges posed by COVID-19 pandemic across international boundaries, disrupting the economic system and life styles globally. It starts by setting the historical context of the pandemic and proceeds to describe the impact on the Indian economy, how certain sections of the population have become economically and psychologically vulnerable. International experts from diverse fields—development economics, macroeconomics, corporate finance, history, sociology, psychology, public policy, and urban studies—contribute to this exciting analysis of an Indian and global society at the crossroads. The book examines emerging themes related to global economic revival, intellectual property rights over the vaccine, and rupturing of the global supply chains. It discusses the response of institutions and markets to the global pandemic. It closes with a futuristic look at the new society and global system that may emerge out of the chaos. A valuable resource appealing to a wide readership across the social sciences and the humanities. Readers include undergraduate students, postgraduate students, researchers and academic teachers, and also public policy experts.
Contents
Chapter 1. Zoonotic pathogens, human lives, and pandemics in the age of the Anthropocene.- Chapter 2. India's lockdown: An Interim Report.- Chapter 3. The Covid-19 Shock and the Indian Economy - A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis.- Chapter 4. Data as Guide to Policy: Bills of Mortality of 17th Century and Covid-19 of 2020.- Chapter 5. Regional Disparity Migration and Pandemic: Issues of Labour market Integration and Future of Cities.- Chapter 6. How can we facilitate psychological recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic?.- Chapter 7. How susceptible is the black and ethnic minority (bame)? An analysis of covid-19 mortality in england.- Chapter 8. Effects from pandemics and stagnation.- Chapter 9. Festival of Death: Global Stock Markets during the Pandemic.- Chapter 10. The Pandemic and the New Corporate Sector: "Winners"and "Losers" and what lies ahead.- Chapter 11. Populists, pragmatists and pandemics: explaining the variance in response of democracies to sars-covid-19.- Chapter 12. Patent protection and access to covid-19 medical Products in Developing Countries.- Chapter 13. Pandemic, Market structures and Institutions.- Chapter 14. Integration without Coordination: Revisiting Globalization in the Light of the Pandemic.- Chapter 15. The Covid-19 pandemic and happiness.
