Routledge Managing Complexity and COVID-19: Life, Liberty, or the Pursuit of Happiness

This book brings together insights and perspectives from leading medical, legal, and business professionals, as well as academics and other members of civil society, on the threats and opportunities to life during the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides a uniquely interdisciplinary perspective for policymakers, researchers, and medical professionals to assess the different practical strategies, and risk and crisis management processes available to them in addressing the very difficult choices with which they are presented and their implications. The book presents a framework for the different facets of strategic choices faced by policymakers between life and livelihood, and the challenges of protecting health versus reopening the economy. It also evaluates the intense challenges faced by frontline medical professionals and scientists during an unfolding catastrophe. Finally, the authors explore the societal and human elements of the pandemic and its impact on family dynamics, society, education, and business, including the technology, creative, entertainment, and leisure industries. This book is deliberately short and captures key insights on the COVID-19 pandemic to form an interdisciplinary overview for professionals, policymakers, and business leaders to consider the long-term implications of the pandemic and lessons for future crises. Review "The book takes a unique multidisciplinary perspective of the pandemic reopening strategies highlighting fissures in society and long-held assumptions. The book proposes how Universities can lever on management education to help build a resilient and a more inclusive digitally enabled society." – Ho Kwon Ping, Founding Executive Chairman of Banyan Tree Holdings and Founding Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Singapore Management University"This book takes a unique multi-disciplinary perspective of the pandemic, reopening strategies highlighting fissures in society and long-held assumptions. The book proposes how universities can lever on management education to help build a resilient and a more inclusive digitally enabled society." – Ho Kwon Ping, Founding Executive Chairman of Banyan Tree Holdings and Founding Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Singapore Management University About the Author Aurobindo Ghosh, PhD, MS (Finance), MStat, Corresponding Editor, Assistant Professor of Finance Education, Director, Citi-SMU Financial Literacy Program, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University, Singapore. Prof Ghosh teaches and has published peer-reviewed research papers, chapters, and case studies in financial economics and analytics. Amit Haldar, MD, DM (Neurology), Ex- Fellow of Clinical Neurophysiology, Children's Hospital Boston, USA. Dr Haldar is presently a Consultant Neurologist in India, with special interest in epilepsy and has contributed many book chapters and scientific publications in neurology. His research interests include clinical studies, neurological complications, and the testing of COVID-19.Kalyan Bhaumik, BA, LLB (Calcutta), Advocate of Supreme Court of India and High Court, Calcutta, Ex-President Rotary Club of Calcutta Old City, India. Advocate Bhaumik practises law in civil and criminal matters, including corporate law, family law, marriage and divorce law, media, entertainment, and sports law, and has authored articles in legal and business economic matters.