دانلود کتاب The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Public Choice View

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Preface
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Public Interest Explanations vs. Public Choice Explanations
References
Chapter 2: Viral Mitigation: Weak Theoretical Underpinnings
2.1 SARS-CoV-2’s IFR Speaks Against the Equal Vulnerability Thesis
2.2 There Is More to Immunity Than Antibodies: The Case of Pre-existing Immunity
2.3 Is There Such a Thing as Asymptomatic Transmission?
2.4 Wishful Thinking Part 1: Zero-Covid Through Lockdowns
2.5 Wishful Thinking Part 2: Zero-Covid Through Mass Vaccination
2.6 The Fundamental Problems of Lockdown Mechanism
2.7 Lockdown Failure
2.8 Pre-existing Immunity vs. Shutdowns
2.9 Modeling Drawbacks: Poor Inputs, Poor Outputs
2.10 Displacement Effect, Lockdowns, and Focused Protection
References
Chapter 3: The World Stampeded: From Mass Hysteria to Prolonged Mass Hysteria
3.1 Laying Out Mass Hysteria
3.2 Mass Hysteria Intensified and Drew Out
3.3 Mass Hysteria and Social Desirability Bias: Panic Institutionalized
References
Chapter 4: Tradeoffs and Knock-On Effects
4.1 The Wrong Dilemma
4.2 Estimating Tradeoffs: Established Knowledge as Guiding Principle
4.3 School Closures
4.4 Economic Devastation Part 1: Deep Recession
4.5 Economic Devastation Part 2: Increased Spending and Inflationary Tolls
4.6 Isolation
4.7 Unreasonably (?) High Excess Deaths
References
Chapter 5: Public Choice Theory: An Explanation of the Pandemic Policy Responses
5.1 Can Voters Ever Be Public-Interested Agents?
5.2 Voters’ Ideal Point: A Conglomerate of Expected Utilities
5.3 Politicians as Vote Maximizers
5.4 Public Choice Theory Applied to Outliers
5.5 Not Ill-Informed Politicians: Public Choice Theory and the Precautionary Principle
5.6 Public Choice Theory and Mass Vaccination
5.7 Bootleggers and Baptists
5.8 Pandemic Responses’ Popularity: Weak and Hard Data
5.9 Budget Maximizing Mechanism
References
Chapter 6: Epilogue
6.1 The Sound Scientific Grounds of Public Choice Theory
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