An examination of over 100 Covid-19 studies reveals that many relied on false assumptions
that over-estimated the benefits and under-estimated the costs of lockdown. The most recent …

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has caused
considerable morbidity and mortality worldwide. The protection provided by vaccines and …

Reward hacking--where RL agents exploit gaps in misspecified reward functions--has been
widely observed, but not yet systematically studied. To understand how reward hacking …

Background On the account of limited doses of COVID-19 available to the country, the
Government of Ghana created a priority list of persons to target for its vaccination agenda. In …

This review discusses the unique features of Austrian economics and some of the recent
contributions of this school of thought. We organize these contributions in different research …

In response to the COVID‐19 pandemic, governments around the world issued stay‐at‐
home orders, which required that individuals stay at home unless they were engaging in …

We propose an economic framework for determining the optimal allocation of a scarce
supply of vaccines that become gradually available during a public health crisis, such as the …

Negative infectious disease externalities are less prevalent in the absence of government
intervention and less costly to society than is often supposed. That is so for three reasons.(1) …

The Indian federation is highly centripetal, and historically, this has left states without the
requisite legislative and fiscal authority to take independent action and initiate policies of …

Whereas most countries in the COVID‐19 pandemic imposed shutdowns and curfews to
mitigate the contagion, Sweden uniquely pursued a more voluntarist approach. In this …