Covid-19

A Trade-off between Political Economy and Ethics

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ID13036620
AuthorsH Schneider (0000-0002-0428-8967, N or da ka de mi e, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume12
Issue2
Pages323-340
Publication date2021-06-29
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueStatistics Politics and Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2151-7509 • E-ISSN: 2194-6299
PublisherDe Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/spp-2021-0001
OpenAlexW3173825746
LanguageEN
References cited32

This paper investigates the trade-off between economics and ethics applying them to “lockdowns” as a policy measure to counter the Covid-19-pandemic. This is an academic research on the nature and mechanism of trade-offs in so far as they apply to decision making. In the course of the line of inquiry pursued here, several different ways of trading off are assessed. In applying them to the pandemics, each yield a different answer to the adequacy of lockdowns as measures against the pandemic. The economic trade-off found “optimalcy” conditions, the utilitarian-ethical trade-off failed to do so revealing that there is a problem using “scientific evidence” as basis for such a trade-off. The value-ethical trade-off found out that lockdowns do not pass the test of proportionality within the usual constitutional framework

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Commercial policy · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Economics · International trade · Law and economics · Pandemic · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Proportionality (law · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 · Value (mathematics · Yield (engineering · Agricultural risk and resilience · Computer Science · Law · Virology

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