ABSTRACT

A global health and economic crisis was created by the spread of Covid-19 across the world during the course of 2020 and into 2021. This Special Issue of the International Review of Applied Economics brings together papers analysing various aspects of this twin crisis. The crisis led to massive intervention by governments, both to tackle the health crisis - through lock-downs; social distancing measures; test, trace and isolate programmes; and to develop and then provide vaccinations - and to offset the economic damage created by the lock-downs, the fall in travel and trade, and so forth. Several of the papers take up the challenge of how we might ‘build back better’. The leading expert on organisational studies and organisational behaviour John Child notes that while the Covid-19 pandemic intensified many of the economic and social problems that societies were already facing, the public response to the crisis points to a constructive way forward, including people participating in collective activities to contribute to addressing the common challenge, arguing that “it is timely to widen participation in organisational decision-making as an approach to addressing many of the problems which will continue to be with us post-Covid, and which indeed the pandemic has exacerbated”. These further challenges include inequality, and the climate crisis. Both could be tackled through a global Green New Deal.

摘要

Covid-19在2020年至2021年期间在全球范围内蔓延，造成了全球性的健康和经济危机。《应用经济学国际评论》特刊汇集了分析这种双重危机各个方面的论文。这场危机导致政府进行了大规模干预，通过锁定措施来解决健康危机。社交隔离措施; 测试，跟踪和隔离程序；并开发并提供疫苗接种-并抵消由于封锁，旅行和贸易下降等造成的经济损失。一些论文提出了我们如何“更好地重建”的挑战。组织研究和组织行为的领先专家John Child指出，虽然Covid-19大流行加剧了社会已经面临的许多经济和社会问题，但公众对危机的回应指出了建设性的前进之路，包括参加集体活动以为应对共同挑战做出贡献的人们，认为“适时扩大参与组织决策作为解决许多问题的方法是及时的，在Covid之后我们将继续面对这些问题，的确，流行病加剧了。” 这些进一步的挑战包括不平等和气候危机。两者都可以通过全球绿色新政来解决。