Year: 2021
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The pandemic of COVID-19 that has plagued our planet since the beginning of 2020, has disrupted the way of life of society in general. As in other pandemics suffered throughout history, isolation has been a crucial measure to avoid contagion, causing effects beyond health, in many areas of life. How society obtains economic resources, spends them, enjoys leisure, or simply interacts, is now different. The political and economic context has changed, freedom of movements and expectations are also different. All this generates changes in the behaviour of society that does not react uniformly in all countries. This chapter reviews some of the modifications in behaviour caused by the present circumstances, as what will happen in future pandemics is not predictable for sure. The emphasis is placed on obedience observed in different contexts to imposed restrictions. Homes have become workplaces, consumption patterns have changed, and the derived effects are not always beneficial or distributed equally across the social strata.
Source: Springer Actuarial
Author: Nuria Badenes-Plá
Institution: Instituto de Estudios Fiscales
Language: English
Topic: COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W3215968628