Adrian Bell, Helen Lacey and Andrew Prescott from the People of 1381 research team have contributed a chapter to a new open access publication edited by Monica Billio of the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy, and Simone Varotto of the ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading. A New World Post COVID-19: Lessons for Business, the Finance Industry and Policy Makers is a freely available open access publication which can be downloaded from the following link: https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/libri/978-88-6969-443-1/

Pandemics are disruptive events that have profound consequences for society and the economy. This volume aims to present an analysis of the economic impact of COVID-19 and its likely consequences for our future by drawing from the expertise of authors that specialise in a wide range of fields including fiscal and monetary policy, banking, financial markets, pensions and insurance, artificial intelligence and big data, climate change, labour market, travel, tourism and politics, among others. Adrian, Helen and Andrew's chapter, 'What Can the Black Death Tell Us about the Global Economic Consequences of a Pandemic?', considers what lessons fourteenth-century reactions to the bubonic plague pandemic hold for modern policy makers.