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ERIC Number: EJ1455566
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 7
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0022-0485
EISSN: EISSN-2152-4068
The Economic Way of Thinking in a Pandemic
Alex Tabarrok
Journal of Economic Education, v56 n1 p51-57 2025
During the pandemic, the economic way of thinking was extraordinarily useful, leading to a quick consensus among economists of widely differing political persuasions on many issues of pandemic policy. Yet speaking to politicians, bureaucrats, and the public revealed many ways in which the economic way of thinking was foreign and sometimes uncomfortable to non-economists, albeit often useful. Instructors can use pandemic policy to engage students on topics like incentives, trade-offs, utilitarianism, Bayesian reasoning, and overcoming cognitive biases.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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