Imagine that you are employed as an IPE Analyst for the U.S. Congress. How could you inform their
decisions as an IPE intelligence guru?
Your job is to prepare talking points for the senator’s presentation and debate.
Senator is Adam Ricardo, a Democrat who is a former economist, educated at the University of Chicago
and a classical liberal (C-L).
What are the impacts on key actors of the pandemic and global responses?
What are the sources of conflict and potential cooperation from this crisis?
How does this IPE perspective (Classical Liberal) perceive the situation and inform us about varied
concerns around the pandemic?
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