Reasonable Disagreements

Reasonable Disagreements: Socially Distant: Richard And Adam Disagree About COVID-19

Assessing the policy responses to COVID-19.

Reasonable Disagreements•March 23, 2020
Reasonable Disagreements: Socially Distant: Richard And Adam Disagree About COVID-19

Dialing in from their socially distant hideaways, Richard Epstein and Adam White disagree about basically every aspect of COVID-19 — about how much of a threat it poses to public health; about the policy responses to it; and about the costs of those policy responses.

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Richard A. Epstein

Richard A. Epstein

Adam J. White

Adam J. White

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