by IPSP | Apr 12, 2020 | COVID-19 |
Professor Marc Fleurbaey, Steering Committee Member and Contributing Author of the IPSP Report and Manifesto, has created a simulator that offers an intuitive way of understanding the dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic. This model can be used for personnel who want to...
by IPSP | Apr 12, 2020 | COVID-19 |
What do we know today about Corona and the way it spreads? Why do different countries act differently in reaction to the pandemic? Gustaf Arrhenius, Director of the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm and IPSP lead author in conversation with epidemiologist...
by IPSP | Apr 12, 2020 | COVID-19 |
By Prabhat Patnaik It is said that in a crisis everybody becomes a socialist; free markets take a back seat, to the benefit of the working people. During the second world war for instance, when universal rationing was introduced in Britain, the average worker became...
by IPSP | Apr 12, 2020 | COVID-19 |
By Prabhat Patnaik The tragic irony could not have been more complete. India is under lockdown, but thousands of migrant workers are thronging bus stands or marching on the roads, making a mockery of it; the aim of the lockdown is to prevent the spread of the...
by IPSP | Apr 12, 2020 | COVID-19 |
By Prabhat Patnaik Originally published: IDEA’s (March 23, 2020) The coronavirus attack has so far been much less deadly than the Spanish flu of a century ago. That had affected 500 million people worldwide, about 27 per cent of the world’s population of the...