Thread by @K_Niemietz

More to follow, but @iealondon staff (current and former) have been thinking quite a bit about the economic implications, the policy implications and the social implications of Coronavirus.
Let's start with @MrRBourne on "Corona-Keynesianism":
iea.org.uk/coronomics-the…
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Here's Prof Philip Booth, on the fallacy of seeing the virus as a "failure" of globalisation and free trade:
iea.org.uk/five-decades-o…

Here's Prof @SyedKamall, on why a proactive government response need not be incompatible with classical liberalism, but also on the dangers of this becoming permanent:
iea.org.uk/some-classical…

Here's @MarkJLittlewood on some of the #NeverNeeded regulations that are now being suspended:
thetimes.co.uk/article/maybe-…

Me on what it means to say that someone is "politicising" a crisis (as opposed to spelling out what they honestly believe to be the policy implications):
capx.co/whos-really-po…

Here's @cjsnowdon on why, believe it or not, the Coronavirus is NOT a "crisis of capitalism", and the answer to it isn't socialism:
spectator.co.uk/article/corona…

The economics of panic buying, and loo roll hoarding as a "Prisoner's Dilemma"-type situation - @julianHjessop:
iea.org.uk/the-economics-…

Me on how modern technology is making the situation FAR less bad than it could have been:
iea.org.uk/corona-95-what…

Here's a poddie with Dr @SteveDavies365 on the history of pandemics:
livefromlordnorthstreet.podbean.com/e/what-the-his…

Prof Len Shackleton, on why we shouldn't get to carried away with the "homeworking hype":
iea.org.uk/publications/p…

Coronomics: Dr @SteveDavies365 again, on the economic impact of COVID-19.
livefromlordnorthstreet.podbean.com/e/coronomics-w…

Poddie with @emmamrevell et moi: Is COVID-19 a crisis of globalisation? Have communitarians and economic nationalists been vindicated?
livefromlordnorthstreet.podbean.com/e/coronavirus-…

Prof Philip Booth, for @CapX, on how we should pay for the cost of the Corona crisis.
Or, to put it in more Twittery terms:
How should we FNUD teh Cornoavirsu?!?
capx.co/how-should-we-…

Watch #IEAsolation, Episode 1, with @MarkJLittlewood, @MissVHewson, @cjsnowdon and @darrengrimes:
youtube.com/watch?v=J9vzN0…

Is mass testing, combined with track-and-trace, and quarantining, the answer?
Possibly - but there are massive civil liberties issues, which need sorting out first, says @MissVHewson:
iea.org.uk/corona-trade-o…

Coronomics: Everybody is outraged about short selling.
And everybody is wrong, says @julianHjessop:
iea.org.uk/in-defence-of-…

Will the Coronavirus pave the way for permanent eco-austerity?
Probably not - so Eco-Malthusians shouldn't get too excited, says @mayerandrew:
iea.org.uk/will-covid-19-…