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29 Apr 2020

Therefore, I think we need to have a lot of nonprice allocation, not of the whole economy but just of the really critical elements, like testing and certain types of PPE, because I think otherwise we’re all going to be harmed by that not being allocated to those nodes, as you were talking about, where they have the largest costs associated with it.

“Therefore, I think we need to have a lot of nonprice allocation, not of the whole economy but just of the really critical elements, like testing and certain types of PPE, because I think otherwise we’re all going to be harmed by that not being allocated to those nodes, as you were talking about, where they have the largest costs associated with it.”

Speaker: Glen Weyl
Episode: Glen Weyl on Fighting COVID-19 and the Role of the Academic Expert
Publisher: Conversations with Tyler

Glen Weyl

What Glen said.

I think we would learn a lot more about what elements, for example, of the social distancing are hurting people the most and what elements people are most willing to accept.