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How I wrote and published a book about the economics of coronavirus in a month

Written by Joshua Gans, Professor of Strategic Management, University of Toronto

Shutterstock How I wrote and published a book about the economics of coronavirus in a month

It was written over the last month or so, peer-reviewed, edited and released by MIT Press.

This is the thoroughly-2020 story of how it happened.

Like many academics who entered our present period of isolation in mid-March, I was not at all concerned...

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