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While to discuss that im now joined by David Hammond arsen a Research Fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University professor henderson its good to talk to you thank you very much for your time and if youre actually now one of the things that has been possible in me is that all of the call that 19 pandemic is that in many countries its economists spread merrily liberally minded economists who are very much in favor of the strictest lowdown possible while many at the dimmy all exist and other Public Health professionals are a forum or are reserved about such tools mashers how do you explain that. What i think it what economists did early on starting in march the reason university of chicago study was they took the most extreme. Model which was the Imperial College of london model which has been shown to be fundamentally flawed and they said ok lets take that as given and then lets look at lets kind of see what policies will save how many lives and they came up with us an ast
Possible while many epidemiologists and other Public Health professionals are a form more reserved about such total matters how do you explain die out. What i think it what economists did early on starting in march the reason university of chicago study was they took the most extreme. Model which was the Imperial College of london model which has been shown to be fundamentally flawed and they said ok lets take that as given and then lets look at lets kind of see what policies will save how many lives and they came up with us an astounding measure 1760000 wives which now by the way birch really no one believes that anyway thats what they said and then they took this value of a statistical life that economists talk about i can explain that a little more she was multiplied one by the other and while i got almost a trillion dollars in benefits and they said well lock downs are extremely costly but they are going to cost close to a trillion so therefore we should do it. Is was it an economi
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