Guido Alfani: Pandemics and asymmetric shocks: lessons from the history of plagues, 9 April 2020
The ‘Black Death’ – plague and typhus epidemics – have led to severe economic crises on several occasions in world history. In this short lecture, the well-known pandemic historian will highlight the consequences that the pandemics in the Middle Ages and early modern times had for some regions of the world.