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Grumpy Economist: A Free Market In … Vaccines?

How market forces could expedite the end of the COVID pandemic.

The Grumpy EconomistJanuary 19, 2021
Grumpy Economist: A Free Market In … Vaccines?

John Cochrane analyzes how a lack of market forces have impeded everything from the development of a COVID vaccine, to its distribution, to efforts to get the economy reopened.

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John H. Cochrane

John H. Cochrane

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