Books: Coronavirus and Economic Crisis by Peter Earle
Books: Coronavirus and Economic Crisis by Peter Earle
Today’s book recommendation is a compilation of COVID-19 commentary by American Institute for Economic Research. We fully expect politicians to shift the truth of what’s happened for future generations and this will be helpful in remembering the truth.
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Description
America today faces the most ominous threat to freedom as we’ve known in many generations. The reason and occasion: a pandemic disease. It and the policy response to it has changed fundamentally almost everything we used to take for granted: the right to earn a living, the right to travel, the right to associate, and even hope in the future itself. The calamity has been unparalleled, with social, economic, and political consequences yet unknown. All we really know is that nothing will be the same.
The conventional wisdom is that the American coronavirus experience officially began on January 21, 2020; on that day, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the first domestic case had been discovered in Washington State. For roughly five weeks, news of an escalating health crisis in Wuhan Province had been leaking out of China—much of it surreptitiously reported via anonymous social media accounts.
It was not long before the inevitability of the disease's spread became clear, and less than a week after the disease had reached the US, the American Institute for Economic Research's first article on the uncoiling pandemic appeared, with many more to follow.
This book chronicles AIER's coverage of the opening phase of the world coronavirus outbreak, through the full onset of the crisis, with speculations on the future of wealth and liberty in light of both the virus and the political response.
May this book serve as important documentation of what this country and the world can learn for the future.
This book includes contributions from
Vincent Geloso
Jeffrey Tucker
Bruce Yandle
Peter C. Earle
James L. Caton
Raymond C. Niles
Robert E. Wright
Joakim Book
John Tamny
Robert Hughes
Stephen Davies
Brett Dalton
Scott A. Burns
Edward Stringham
Art Carden
Adam Thierer
Micha Gartz
William J. Luther
Allen Mendenhall
Stephen C. Miller
Veronique de Rugy
Max Gulker
Richard M. Salsman
Richard M. Ebeling.
Peter C. Earle is an economist and writer who joined AIER in 2018 and prior to that spent over 20 years as a trader and analyst in global financial markets on Wall Street.
His research focuses on financial markets, monetary policy, virtual and cryptocurrencies, and issues in economic measurement. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, NPR, and in numerous other publications.
Pete holds an MA in Applied Economics from American University, an MBA (Finance), and a BS in Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point.
The American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, was founded in 1933 as the first independent voice for sound economics in the United States. Today it publishes ongoing research, hosts educational programs, publishes books, sponsors interns and scholars, and is home to the world-renowned Bastiat Society and the highly respected Sound Money Project. The American Institute for Economic Research is a 501c3 public charity.