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03 February 2021
By harlowe

A year into the pandemic, one big lesson

ISERP study featured in the Christian Science Monitor.

A new study finds societies with higher levels of trust have coped better against the virus. A country’s social compact helps in the healing work.

A year after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, scholars are only now discovering why some countries have done better than others in containing the virus. The main reason isn’t better medical equipment or more money. Rather, according to researchers at Columbia University, the Brenthurst Foundation, and other institutions, it is higher levels of trust within a society.

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02 February 2021
By harlowe

Wilmot James in Devex

Consensus or chaos? Pandemic response hinges on trust, experts say

Wilmot James, Senior Research Scholar at ISERP, was quoted in Devex.

Trust is a key reason for the wide variance in how countries have fared during the COVID-19 pandemic, determining why some have succeeded in containing the virus while others have failed, according to new research on responses across 23 countries...

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02 February 2021
By harlowe

Worried About Long-Term Scarring to Economy: Joseph Stiglitz

Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate and professor at Columbia University, speaks with Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde, Romaine Bostick and Joe Weisenthal on "What'd You Miss?" about the inequality in the U.S. economic recovery.

Watch the full video here.

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02 February 2021
By harlowe

Shamus Khan in The Guardian

We're on the verge of breakdown: a data scientist's take on Trump and Biden

Shamus Khan, Professor of Sociology, was quoted in The Guardian.

Peter Turchin is not the first entomologist to cross over to human behaviour: during a lecture in 1975, famed biologist E O Wilson had a pitcher of water tipped on him for extrapolating the study of ant social structures to our own...

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21 January 2021
By harlowe

Learning from COVID-19

Center for Pandemic Research Interim Chair Wilmot James co-authored a synthesis paper, bringing together research presented at the Futures Forum on Preparedness hosted by Schmidt-Futures and the Social Science Research Council. This synthesis paper pulls from the Epidemic/Pandemic Response in Africa: Covid-19 in Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa study.

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