How pandemics catalyze social and economic change
Saturday, May 2, 2020 - 09:00
in Earth & Climate
Throughout history, pandemics and plagues have been powerful changemakers: redistributing income and reducing inequality, according to research by Stanford historian Walter Scheidel. As the world struggles against the current coronavirus crisis, could social and economic transformations follow as before? From 1347 onward, about a third of the population in Europe and the Middle East lost their […]