COVID-19 Pandemic Simulator

Professor Marc Fleurbaey, Steering Committee Member and Contributing Author of the IPSP Report and Manifesto, has created a simulator that offers an intuitive way of understanding the dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic. This model can be used for personnel who want to...

Pandemic and Socialism

By Prabhat Patnaik It is said that in a crisis everybody becomes a socialist; free markets take a back seat, to the benefit of the working people. During the second world war for instance, when universal rationing was introduced in Britain, the average worker became...

The Making of a Tragedy

By Prabhat Patnaik The tragic irony could not have been more complete. India is under lockdown, but thousands of migrant workers are thronging bus stands or marching on the roads, making a mockery of it; the aim of the lockdown is to prevent the spread of the...

Some Basic Lessons from the Pandemic 

By Prabhat Patnaik  Originally published: IDEA’s (March 23, 2020)   The coronavirus attack has so far been much less deadly than the Spanish flu of a century ago. That had affected 500 million people worldwide, about 27 per cent of the world’s population of the...