International cooperation during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Special Issue: The economics of the COVID-19 pandemic.)

This paper explores the concept of 'global public goods' (GPGs) in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic It argues that many of the tasks involved in public health, and in particular those involved in the control of an infectious disease like COVID-19, ought to be treated as GPGs that can only be effectively delivered through international cooperation It sets out what a cooperative response to the COVID-19 pandemic should look like and introduces ideas for further discussion about how it might be financed