Ryan McMaken is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. Ryan has degrees in economics and political science from the University of Colorado and was a housing economist for the State of Colorado. He is the author of Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre. Media pundits and politicians are now in the habit … Continue reading Why Didn’t the 1958 and 1918 Pandemics Destroy the Economy?