The New Liberal Response to the Aid's Crisis

The new liberal response to the aid's crisis is one of the most shocking parts of your book. Richard posner and thomas phillipson argued that the net cost of the crisis might be relatively modest, were the disease left to run its course without public intervention. Even more disturbingly, they argued that the modes by which h i v was transmitted, intervenius, drug use, ind sex, meant that there weren't external a costs outside of private, contractual relationships. And so the price was justly being paid by people who had freely chosen to take risky action.