Why did some countries deal with COVID-19 better than others?
Books, academic journal articles, and PhD dissertations will be written on that subject, with analysis having to contend with a vast array of country‐specific variables that could, conceivably, have affected public health outcomes. But public choice economics offers up one underexplored way to think about the quality of responses: as driven by political incentives.
Despite claims by economists such as Mariana Mazzucato that governments are forward‐looking, there’s a good reason to suspect they will be ill‐prepared when it comes to low‐probability, high‐risk events such as pandemics.
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