Pandemics and the role of governments

The recent pandemic has raised fundamental questions about the traditional role of government. That role has stressed the pursuit of national interests and identified the tools that governments should use in the pursuit of those interests. While over the past century the desirable role of the state was amended to include new objectives (such as equity and stabilization) the focus had remained national interests. This paper argues that this national focus has become increasingly anachronistic and damaging

Anachronism · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Economics · Equity (law) · Focus (optics) · Government (linguistics) · Law and economics · National government · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Politics · State (computer science) · Agricultural risk and resilience · Disaster Management and Resilience · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Medicine