Entrepreneurial action in politics as causing external costs in the COVID-19 pandemic and as a source of risk for slippery slopes

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to highlight how the common and often-invisible effects of government measures against the covid-19 pandemic are related to the dynamics of the moral, material, and political interests of entrepreneurs working in the political sphere, contributing to the implementation of public policies, many of the each generate disastrous consequences in the present or potentially in the future. It seeks to show how political entrepreneurs with diverse interests contribute to the costs seen and unseen during the pandemic, as well as a perspective of negative legacies for the future, according to the risk of “slippery slopes.” Thus, it was possible to conclude that natural or normal problems tend to be reinforced by those seeking to capture or mobilize the state, influencing governments’ measures directly or indirectly.