Is the COVID-19 pandemic cure really worse than the disease? Here's what our research found
Putting a dollar value on human lives to compare the costs and benefits of stay-at-home orders can have unintended consequences. These researchers found a different way.
Olga Yakusheva, Associate Professor in Nursing and Public Health, University of Michigan
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July 7, 2020 • ~6 min
July 7, 2020 • ~6 min
Tags: health public-health covid-19 coronavirus death economics pandemic social-distancing recession cost-benefit-analysis job-loss value-of-life
COVID-19 will slow the global shift to renewable energy, but can't stop it
The US is gradually shifting to lower-carbon energy sources, but the COVID-19 pandemic, an oil price crash and a likely recession are big speed bumps.
Peter Fox-Penner, Director, Institute for Sustainable Energy, and Professor of Practice, Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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March 31, 2020 • ~8 min
March 31, 2020 • ~8 min
Tags: covid-19 china solar-power fossil-fuels supply-chains coronavirus-2020 recession coal renewable-energy wind-energy oil-prices energy-transition electricity-generation
We are entering a recession – but what did we learn from the last one?
While the Great Depression reduced inequality and closed the racial wealth gap, the Great Recession of 2009 did the opposite.
Tags: finance inequality economy money united-states race wall-street great-depression recession great-recession wealth-gap racial-wealth-gap
Jobs that need people skills are the most recession-proof
Jobs that focus on cognitive and people skills are more resistant to economic recession than jobs that rely on physical skills—and bounce back more quickly.
Tags: cities economics jobs recession society-and-culture
Talk of a U.S. recession may be ‘premature’
The Dow Jones Industrial Average took a wild ride last month but one economist thinks that talk of a possible US recession is premature.
Tags: politics economy money recession society-and-culture
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