How Economists Ignored the Spanish Flu Pandemic in 1918–1920

The current Covid-19 pandemic has attracted significant attention from epidemiologists and economists alike. This differs the 1918–1920 Spanish influenza pandemic, when academic hardly paid to its economic features, despite very high death toll. We examine reasons for that by contrasting ways reacted flu at time shortly after pandemic. also explore, but less extensively, some epidemiologic writings during twenty-five years followed.