The Political Economy of COVID-19

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dc.contributor.advisorStorr, Virgil H.
dc.creatorBehr, Rachael
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-17T19:05:22Z
dc.date.available2023-03-17T19:05:22Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation studies the COVID-19 pandemic broadly through the lens of political economy, focusing on the social, entrepreneurial, and political implications of the pandemic. The first chapter examines what has happened to commercial relationships and friendships throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. While many have discussed the toll the pandemic took on general friendships and relationships, none have discussed what happened to commercial friendships during the pandemic. The second chapter studies entrepreneurship during the COVID-19 pandemic. The entrepreneurship literature discusses many different types of crisis entrepreneurs, like natural disaster entrepreneurs and conflict entrepreneurs. This chapter situates and defines pandemic entrepreneurship within the broader crisis entrepreneurship literature. The last chapter applies the median voter theorem to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly to US governors’ mask mandates. It analyzes whether governors followed public health concerns or catered to voter preferences on mask mandates, when the two were in contention.
dc.format.extent161 pages
dc.format.mediumdoctoral dissertations
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1920/13099
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsCopyright 2022 Rachael Behr
dc.rights.urihttps://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0
dc.subjectCommercial Friendships
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subjectEntrepreneurship
dc.subjectMask Mandates
dc.subjectMedian Voter
dc.subject.keywordsEconomics
dc.titleThe Political Economy of COVID-19
dc.typeText
thesis.degree.disciplineEconomics
thesis.degree.grantorGeorge Mason University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.namePh.D. in Economics

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