You've been interacting a lot with epidemiologists to impart your arguments for testing. What's your opinion of that field? W you know that there's actually an interesting parallel in epidemiology with a technical kind of issue in economics. In macro we shifted towards model base reasoning about maeconomics, but i don't think just the kind of practice in math is going to lead to a successful career in mics....
Paul Romer makes his second appearance to discuss the failings of economics, how his mass testing plan for COVID-19 would work, what aspects of epidemiology concern him, how the FDA is slowing a better response, his ideas for reopening schools and Major League Baseball, where he agrees with Weyl’s test plan, why charter cities need a new name, what went wrong with Honduras, the development trajectory for sub-Saharan Africa, how he’d reform the World Bank, the underrated benefits of a culture of science, his heartening takeaway about human nature from his experience at Burning Man, and more.
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Recorded May 13th, 2020 Other ways to connect