“The Political Economy of Pandemics” with guest panelists David Stadelmann and Gustavo Torrens
Channel: IASC COMMONS
Date: 23/11/2020

as we continue our “Don’t Waste the Covid-19 Crisis” webinar series, this week’s entitled “The Political Economy of Pandemics” with guest panelists David Stadelmann and Gustavo Torrens.
 
Pandemics are not only biological events. They generate impacts that are worth understanding from a broad societal, political and economic perspective. This requires focusing on the big picture and on fundamental questions. Central features of our global society such as connectivity, mobility, and social interactions render the world more vulnerable to the challenge of pandemic diseases.

About our panelists:
Prof. Dr. David Stadelmann is professor at the University of Bayreuth (Germany). He is a committed educationalist. Stadelmann's research interests include political and institutional economics as well as the broad topics of growth, development and migration. 

Professor Gustavo Torrens is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Indiana University and of the Political Economy Program at the Ostrom Workshop. His research centers on Political Economy, Economic Development and International Economics. He studies how institutions influence economic outcomes, but also the determinants of institutions and institutional change.