For the latest in our series of webinars, with restrictions returning across the Western World, our very own Matt Kilcoyne is joined by Professor Alex Tabarrok and ASI Senior Fellow Sam Bowman to discuss the economics of the viral pandemic and the policy responses we’re seeing in Britain and America. 

Do the costs of lockdown measures across the world match or exceed the costs of the virus itself? Have we thought about the ongoing economic impacts of action and inaction? Is the world ready for the economics of a vaccine? Have we internalised the full costs of the long-run consequences of covid? 

All these questions and more will be answered as we explore the lags, externalities, and the coming economic battles over lockdowns and vaccines.

So join us at 6pm UK Time on Tuesday 3rd November. As we will be hosting this on US election day, there may even be time for a quick question on how each election result (or indeed the lack of one) may change the policy response. 

Matt Kilcoyne is the Deputy Director of the Adam Smith Institute 

Alex Tabarrok is Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center and a professor of economics at George Mason University. Along with Tyler Cowen, he is the co-author of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution and co-founder of Marginal Revolution University. 

Sam Bowman is Director of Competition Policy at the International Center for Law and Economics (ICLE), where he manages the Center’s work on competition and platform regulation issues in the US and overseas. He is also an advisor at Fingleton, a London-based regulatory and competition advisory firm, and a Senior Fellow at the Adam Smith Institute, where he previously was Executive Director. 

Details:

Date: Tuesday, 3rd November 2020
Time: 6.00pm - 7.00pm (UK time)

The webinar will begin at 6.00pm, with an audience Q&A session taking place at approximately 6.45pm. The webinar will conclude at 7.00pm.