The current COVID-19 pandemic has attracted significant attention from epidemiologists and economists alike. This … differs from the 1918-19 Spanish Influenza pandemic, when academic economists hardly paid attention to its economic features …, despite its very high mortality toll. We examine the reasons for that, by contrasting the ways epidemiologists and economists …

other minorities. We find that nearly 12% of UK-employed academic economists are of ethnic minority origin. However, only 1 … ethnic minority economists feel that they have suffered workplace discrimination …Using a survey questionnaire of academic economists in the United Kingdom, we examine the representation of ethnic and …