Noah Smith and Brad DeLong: the cost of the crisis

Out of the Crisis by Eric Ries

Aug 31, 202001:01:19Technology

We are now seeing how damaging our weak response to the pandemic was in the US. Both on human lives and on the economy. But, how much would it actually have cost, if we had completely shuttered the economy for six weeks...

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