1 Introduction -- 2 An Overview of Pandemics -- 3 The Spanish Flu in the News -- 4 Unequal Mortality during the Spanish …This Pivot book provides a framework for understanding the economic and potentially unequal effects of pandemics … outbreak of Covid-19 increasing the need to learn about the economic effects of pandemics, this book will be of interest to …

We evaluate the 1968 H3N2 Flu pandemic’s economic cost in a cross-section of 52 countries. Using excess mortality rates ….9%). Our main findings highlight the role of both negative demand-side and supply-side shocks in the flu pandemic’s aftermath. …