The return of Keynesianism? Exploring path dependency and ideational change

Email: usman.chohan@csa.org Abstract The aim of this article is to explore the nature of policy change in the domain of public finance (fiscal policy) in the wake of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic as well as for a post-Covid era. [...] Keywords: fiscal policy; path dependency; critical juncture; paradigm; public finance; COVID-19; pandemic economics The aim of this article is to examine the nature of policy change in the domain of public finance (fiscal policy) in the wake of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic as well as for a post-Covid era. [...] However, much of the useful emergent literature pertains to analyses of the responses that countries undertook, particularly during the early phase of the pandemic, often to policy effectiveness in governmental responses. [...] All of this will also depend on both the degree of intracrisis learning (Moynihan, 2009), in that the public debt and deficit levels will be seen in the shorter-term context of an ongoing pandemic (with further possible waves), as well as the inter-crisis learning in the longer-term considerations of keeping sustainable public finances (Witting & Moyson, 2015). [...] Socioeconomic inequalities in the spread of coronavirus-19 in the United States: A examination of the emergence of social inequalities.