March 1st: Looking forward to presenting recent work on learning, regulation, and innovation in Medical Devices and Diagnostics (MDDs) to the MPA students of UCL’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Public Policy department (STEaPP).
Srinivas, S. (forth.). When is Industry ‘Sustainable’? The Economics of Institutional Variety in a Pandemic, Special Issue (Lee, Kastelli, Mamica Eds.) Industrial Policy for Sustainable Development, Review of Evolutionary Political Economy. Cases analysed: Oxygen, Ayurveda, India, Covid-19 Photo by Denes Kozma on Unsplash Abstract Industrialising economies today are characterised by a multi-level heterogeneity ofcustoms, norms, … Read more
A look at the pandemic through the lens of ‘Market Menagerie’. How far does popular discussion take us in facing Covid-19?
The topic? you guessed it: Healthcare Diplomacy, now practically a household term. Before Covid, this was specialist terrain mostly narrowed to clinicians and virologists. The pandemic has made it necessary to have wider public debates on sustained health and wellbeing and the new diplomacy of healthcare.
Smita Srinivas was invited by Sattva and convened some of the world’s best thinkers in this special issue of Prayas on healthcare systems in their wider social protection context.
“Consequently, as technological advances grow and equipment and methods increasingly specialist and narrow, economics ceases to be the simple cost calculus of cost–benefit analysis, neither a market failure threshold for state intervention, nor indeed one that can rely on equilibrium analysis in fast-moving technological domains.”