というSSRN論文(原題は「How Economists Ignored the Spanish Flu Pandemic in 1918-20」)をブラジリア大のMauro Boianovskyとアントワープ大のGuido Erreygersが上げている(H/T Mostly Economics)。以下はMostly Economicsで引用されている論文の結論部。 The current COVID-19 pandemic has attracted significant attention from epidemiologists and economists alike. This differs from the 1918-19 Spanish Influenza pandemic, when academic economists hardly paid attention