India Covid Story: A Comparison with Other Countries
Given each state is a microcosm of a country, how do Indian states at individual level fare against countries of comparable size
Read More India Covid Story: A Comparison with Other CountriesCategory: Pandemics
Legibility, Epidemiology, Geography and Public Health Externalities
Explains how a exercise towards bringing legibility led to the identification of the source of cholera thus improvements in public health systems
Read More Legibility, Epidemiology, Geography and Public Health ExternalitiesInvestigating Wuhan Pandemic Spread and Determinants
Using the tools of multiple regression, an attempt to decode the determinants of the spread of the Wuhan pandemic
Read More Investigating Wuhan Pandemic Spread and DeterminantsRate Limiting Step and the Wuhan Flu
Using the concept of rate limiting step, the post discusses how this can be used to plan the containment of the epidemic while opening up the economy and the society
Read More Rate Limiting Step and the Wuhan FluThe Externalities of Herd Immunity
In the wake of Wuhan virus and the need to contain it, herd immunity strategy has been one of the focal points of discussion, The post seeks to do cost benefit analysis of the same
Read More The Externalities of Herd ImmunityExiting the Lockdown and the Chinese Virus
Rather than taking extreme positions, the post calls for graded lifting of the lockdown imposed post Chinese virus pandemic
Read More Exiting the Lockdown and the Chinese VirusPandemic and Health Care Equilibrium
Given the market forces of demand and supply, the very nature of health care in normal times might lead to market failure. It is pronounced more so in pandemics. A brief glance on the market dynamics of the system
Read More Pandemic and Health Care EquilibriumFiscal and Monetary Policy in Pandemic Times
The post “Convexity of Recovery” discussed the increasing costs that accompany the recovery in a post disaster package. This is perhaps due to the convexity nature of the recovery curve. The post “Macroeconomics of Pandemics” discussed the peculiar nature of the dynamic interactions of Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply in the uncertain context of pandemic […]
Read More Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Pandemic TimesThe Indian Lockdown
The much anticipated national shutdown has happened. Perhaps never in the history that 1.32 billion people would be confined to their homes for the next 21 days as the country seeks to combat the scourge of the Chinese virus that originated in Wuhan. As a matter of fact, the government had little options and the […]
Read More The Indian LockdownSounds, Signals and the Wuhan Virus War
Seeks to explore the economic rational for the clapping for warriors against Wuhan virus
Read More Sounds, Signals and the Wuhan Virus War
Thoughts on Theory and Practice 