Includes bibliographical references.

Before the crisis: The underappreciated trend in mortality and inequality / by Vincent Geloso ; The economics of pandemics and quarantines / by Vincent Geloso ; Must government save us from the coronavirus? / by Jeffrey Tucker ; Can the coronavirus end the trade war? / by Bruce Yandle -- Crisis unfolds: The effect of the coronavirus on financial markets / by Peter C. Earle ; Economic policy must prepare for pandemic disease / by Peter C. Earle and Jeffrey Tucker ; The coronavirus reveals the limits of monetary policy / by James L. Caton ; Anti-gouging laws can kill / by Raymond C. Niles ; The insoluble perils of prediction / by Joakim Book ; COVID-19 prompts the question : why value human life? / by Jeffrey Tucker -- The crisis hits: Why this draconian response to COVID-19? / Jeffrey Tucker ; Economic crisis is the state's oxygen / by John Tamny ; Small-business optimism remained high in February but COVID-19 increases uncertainty / by Robert Hughes ; The free market provides what we need to survive a pandemic / by Jeffrey Tucker ; They are rewriting the history of coronavirus in real time / by Peter C. Earle ; Be alarmed, but don't panic / by Stephen Davies ; Coronavirus and a case for optimism / by Brett Dalton and Bruce Yandle ; The Fed cannot combat coronavirus / by Scott A. Burns ; South Korea preserved the open society and now infection rates are falling / by Peter C. Earle -- Crisis and chaos: Special note from Edward Stringham ; Government has only added to insecurity and fear / by John Tamny ; Celebrate the heroes who stay open / by Jeffrey Tucker ; Those shelves wouldn't be empty if we hadn't stopped "capitalism" / by Art Carden ; How the US botched coronavirus testing / by Adam Thierer ; To kill markets is the worst possible plan / by Richard M. Ebeling ; The parasites exacerbating COVID-19 / by Robert E. Wright ; The anatomy of the Crash of 2010 / by Peter C. Earle ; A politically fueled panic is not a good plan / by Micha Gartz -- Living with crisis: An epistemic crisis / by Jeffrey Tucker ; If you bail out everyone, you bail out no one / by John Tamny ; Good reasons to doubt the estimate of COVID-19 deaths / by William J. Luther ; The difference between a recession and a crack-up / by John Tamny ; What coronavirus teaches us about human connection / by Allen Mendenhall ; The US coronavirus death rate is falling, and Germany's more so / by Stephen C. Miller ; Beware of panic policymaking / by Veronique de Rugy ; Medical-supply nationalism is deeply harmful, even deadly / by Max Gulker ; Incarceration, monetization, and nationalization can't preserve our health or wealth / by Richard M. Salsman ; 800 medical specialists caution against draconian measures / by Edward P. Stringham ; Leaving people alone is the best way to beat the coronavirus / by Richard M. Ebeling.