Managing Covid-19: What countries can - and can't - learn from one another
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modelling only teaches us so much about an uncertain future, whether the modellers are economists or epidemiologists. Ultimately, one must learn from experience. The more experiences cities, states or nations are having, the faster we can learn from one another.
Why were so many countries so slow?
1) it is simply more convenient to learn from countries with a shared language....Dispatches from South Korea or Vietnam seem to come from a different planet.
2) Ideology matters, too
3) each place has its own institutions, culture and history. In most policy areas, lessons do not easily translate. ... The starting points are so far apart that the lessons are obscure.
The coronavirus is different. It doesn't care about cultural norms and barely about the level of economic development.
3) "History has nothing to teach us." Do you agree?
modelling only teaches us so much about an uncertain future, whether the modellers are economists or epidemiologists. Ultimately, one must learn from experience. The more experiences cities, states or nations are having, the faster we can learn from one another.
Why were so many countries so slow?
1) it is simply more convenient to learn from countries with a shared language....Dispatches from South Korea or Vietnam seem to come from a different planet.
2) Ideology matters, too
3) each place has its own institutions, culture and history. In most policy areas, lessons do not easily translate. ... The starting points are so far apart that the lessons are obscure.
The coronavirus is different. It doesn't care about cultural norms and barely about the level of economic development.
Qns:
1) How far is it important for
people to be aware of current events in countries other than their own? (Cam. 2014)
2) Discuss the claim that in the modern world people should care more
about international than national issues. (Cam. 2013)3) "History has nothing to teach us." Do you agree?
posted by Dark Shadow | 1:49 PM
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