Economics Explored

Lockdown Cost-Benefit Analysis with Professor Douglas Allen

Episode Summary

Discussion regarding COVID lockdown costs versus benefits with Professor Douglas Allen from Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Episode Notes

Professor Douglas Allen from Simon Fraser University, Canada has concluded COVID lockdowns have been the greatest peacetime policy failure in Canada's history. Professor Allen speaks with Economics Explored host Gene Tunny in this episode of Economics Explored.

Links relevant to the conversation include:

Professor Allen's Lockdown CBA for Canada

Economist: Lockdowns ‘Greatest Peacetime Policy Failure’ in Canada’s History - Foundation for Economic Education

Our World in Data - Coronavirus

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