Infrastructure and Inequality
New Books in Economics
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COVID - Can We Use Infrastructure as a Sensor?
The idea is that a heatwave that hit Chicago that killed hundreds and hundreds of people there were blocks out back of hospitals just with bodies in them. What this brought into stark relief is a social autopsy of really what who is getting left behind when the system is intact and we can't see that. We're trying to look at could we isolate based on pockets of infrastructure where oh my gosh this is going to be really where the problem is for COVID, he says. He adds: "Once we have this unified infrastructure database together we're hoping to bring in like we could look at natural disasters"
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