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Economists, like researchers in many disciplines, are responding to the urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic. The immediate prioriti

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问题     Economists, like researchers in many disciplines, are responding to the urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic. The immediate priorities are understanding the consequences of the crisis for public finances and international trade. Scholars are scrambling to collect data on how many jobs are lost, what people can afford to buy and what shortages will emerge. Even constructing basic economic statistics such as inflation and gross domestic product is challenging when one-third, say, of activity in the economy has halted. We need measures to understand which groups of people will be intolerably affected so that governments can directly help them.
    There are many other pressing questions. When will the health toll of isolation, unemployment or delayed surgery outweigh that caused directly by COVID-19? What are the implications for next year’s supplies of staple foods or of higher levels of long-term disability? How quickly can vaccine manufacture be scaled up? What release-from-lockdown strategies are behaviourally and hence politically feasible? Can national governments negotiate with each other to arrive at cooperative, mutually beneficial policies? What can international agencies do to encourage this when geopolitical tensions are rising? Addressing these questions requires collaboration across many disciplines to synthesize new findings with old—fast. It’s time to deliver on the benefits of public investment in research.
    Economists are notoriously less likely than other social scientists to look outside their own discipline, and medical and natural scientists are not accustomed to looking to the social sciences for insight. The pandemic is changing all that. It has become obvious that the search for viable exit strategies needs biomedical science, epidemiology, public health, behavioural and social psychology, engineering, economics, law, ethics, international relations and political science. Without contributions from all these, navigating toward less-than-disastrous outcomes for wellbeing— human and planetary—will be impossible.
    To share findings fast, the economics community has set up light-touch peer-review outlets, such as the European Economic Association’s COVID-19 resource. The United Kingdom’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is kick-starting an observatory to collect and translate research. Funders such as the ESRC and the European Commission’s corona platform are rapidly processing research proposals. Academics who have long studied what previously seemed like unpopular topics, such as the links between financial uncertainty and stress or knots in supply chains, are producing research at extraordinary pace and providing public commentary to communicate their work.
    Getting good at inter-disciplinarity will bring benefits in long term. The specifics will vary, but the need for coordinated research and policy applies to building a post-pandemic social order and to crafting an economy that limits climate change as far as possible.
As for inter-disciplinary research, the author________.
选项 A、is concerned about the social order after pandemic
B、believes in its long-term rewards
C、looks forward to establishing a new economy pattern
D、is worried about different specific situations
答案B
解析 细节题。根据题干关键词inter-disciplinary可定位至最后一段第一句Getting good at inter-disciplinarity will bring benefits in long term，B项中的rewards是对原文benefits的同义替换，故为正确答案。最后一段第二句说的是The specifics will vary，but the need for coordinated research and policy applies to building a post-pandemic social order and to crafting an economy that limits climate change as far as possible，即“建立后疫情社会秩序及建立尽可能限制气候改变的经济模式需要协调的研究和政策”，而非仅仅跨学科研究就能实现，故排除A项和C项。原文只提到了specifics will vary“具体情况可能会有所不同”，没有提及作者对不同情况的担忧，D项属于主观臆断，错误。
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