This comprehensive book brings together research published during 2021 analysing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the economy - on output and employment, on inequality, and on public policy responses.

Jonathan Michie is Professor of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange at the University of Oxford, where he is also President of Kellogg College. He is the managing editor of the International Review of Applied Economics, and Chair of the Universities Association for Lifelong Learning.

Maura Sheehan is Professor of International Management at Edinburgh Napier University. She is Associate Editor of the International Review of Applied Economics and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Organisational Effectiveness: People and Performance (JOEPP).

Introduction: Building back better? Part 1: Causes, Effects and Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis 1. Organizational participation in post-covid society: its contributions and enabling conditions 2. The psychological consequences of COVID-19 lockdowns 3. COVID-19: effectiveness of socioeconomic factors in containing the spread and mortality 4. Is there a shift contagion among stock markets during the COVID-19 crisis? Further insights from TYDL causality test 5. Health risk and the efficient market hypothesis in the time of COVID-19 6. Behavioral finance and market efficiency in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: does fear drive the market? 7. Analysis of containment measures and economic policies arising from COVID-19 in the European Union 8. Covid 19: Ramifications for progress towards the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Nigeria 9. The political risk factors of COVID-19 10. A green new deal and debt sustainability for the post COVID-19 world 11. COVID-19 and the Chinese economy: impacts, policy responses and implications Part 2: Covid-19, Inequality, and Government Responses 12. The 'Great Reset' to tackle Covid-19 and other crises 13. The Covid-19 pandemic and economic stimulus in India: has it been a hostage of macroeconomic complications? 14. Accounting for global value chains: rising global inequality in the wake of COVID-19? 15. Impact of pandemics on income inequality: lessons from the past 16. The Korean government's public health responses to the COVID-19 epidemic through the lens of industrial policy 17. The impact of COVID-19 on the Indian economy 18. An empirical analysis of COVID-19 response: comparison of US with the G7