隐藏大象：COVID 政策及其经济学家辩护士的悲剧

IF 1.2 4区经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS

Australian Economic Papers Pub Date : 2024-03-06 DOI:10.1111/1467-8454.12293

Gigi Foster, Paul Frijters

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摘要

2020 年和 2021 年，世界目睹了对大多数国家造成巨大净损失的政策。我们展示了新 WELLBY 货币在衡量 COVID 政策的成本和收益方面的实用性，并回顾了澳大利亚经济学家在有关这些政策的学术和公共辩论中所做的贡献。我们的分析记录了被破坏的东西的价值、澳大利亚经济学界在此期间发起的微弱抵抗，以及许多澳大利亚经济学家为我们所认为的澳大利亚和平时期最灾难性的经济政策失败辩护所扮演的角色。最后，我们提出了努力创造更美好未来的想法。

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Hiding the elephant: The tragedy of COVID policy and its economist apologists

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Hiding the elephant: The tragedy of COVID policy and its economist apologists

In 2020 and 2021, the world witnessed policies that caused enormous net damage to most countries. We demonstrate the usefulness of the new WELLBY currency in gauging the costs and benefits of COVID policies and review the contributions of Australian economists to the scholarly and public debates about these policies. Our analysis documents the value of what was destroyed, the weak resistance mounted by the Australian economics profession during this period, and the role played by many Australian economists as apologists for what we view as Australia's most catastrophic peacetime economic policy failure. We close with ideas for working towards a better future.

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Australian Economic Papers ECONOMICS-

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3.20

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5.30%

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