"Gans believes the focus of the pandemic should be about understanding the information problem, and knowing critical facts at every phase of pandemic recovery to suppress future outbreaks." --Business Insider Praise for Economics in the Age of COVID-19 "It's a shame that policymakers did not have books such as Joshua Gans's Economics in the Age of COVID-19 to lay out the issues for them in January." -- Nature "The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a number of areas where government was unprepared despite years of preparation, but it has also revealed a very un-governmental nimbleness in responding to the economics of the pandemic-induced recession. Economist Joshua Gans says there was no pandemics playbook on how to keep an economy running in a situation like this, and despite the real hardships many are facing today, policymakers have made more right decisions than wrong to this point." --Public Radio Tulsa "Written in an unpretentious conversational style, Economics in the Age of Covid - 19 (Gans) provides an accessible overview of the past, present, and future economic choices confronting nations grappling against the viral pandemic of Covid-19." --Postdigital Science and Education.