Reiner Eichenberger, Author at IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/auteur/reiner-eichenberger/ Independent research and policy analysis on fiscal, monetary, and regulatory issues in Europe Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:30:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://en.irefeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/04/IREF-LinkedIn-Profile-DarkBlue-scaled.png Reiner Eichenberger, Author at IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/auteur/reiner-eichenberger/ 32 32 The case for liberalism: Pervasive market failure in the economy and the polity https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/article/the-case-for-liberalism-pervasive-market-failure-in-the-economy-and-the-polity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-case-for-liberalism-pervasive-market-failure-in-the-economy-and-the-polity https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/article/the-case-for-liberalism-pervasive-market-failure-in-the-economy-and-the-polity/#respond Thu, 16 Mar 2023 05:54:45 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/?p=34975 WP 2023-02. Executive Summary We argue to look at the polity with the very same vista with which modern economics looks at markets, as the polity is nothing but the…

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/article/the-case-for-liberalism-pervasive-market-failure-in-the-economy-and-the-polity/feed/ 0 Certified Corona-Immunity as a Resource and Strategy to Cope with Pandemic Costs https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/article/certified-corona-immunity-as-a-resource-and-strategy-to-cope-with-pandemic-costs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=certified-corona-immunity-as-a-resource-and-strategy-to-cope-with-pandemic-costs https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/article/certified-corona-immunity-as-a-resource-and-strategy-to-cope-with-pandemic-costs/#respond Tue, 31 Mar 2020 15:21:27 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/article-certified-corona-immunity-as-a-resource-and-strategy-to-cope-with-pandemic-costs/ WP 2020-02.

A pandemic is not only a biological event and a public health disaster, but it also generates impacts that are worth understanding from a societal, historical, and cultural perspective. In this contribution, we argue that as the disease spreads, we are able to harness a valuable key resource, namely people who have immunity to Corona. This vital resource must be employed effectively, it must be certified, it must be searched for, it must be found, and it may even be actively produced. We discuss why this needs to be done and how this can be achieved. Our arguments not only apply to the current pandemic, but also to any future rapidly spreading, infectious disease epidemics. In addition, we argue for awareness of a secondary non-biological crisis arising from the side effects of pandemic reactions. There is a risk that the impacts of the secondary crisis could outweigh that of the biological event from a health and societal perspective.

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