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COVID-19
SOCIAL SCIENCE
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About |
In response to the spread of COVID-19, political leaders around the world have adopted draconian measures to lock down economies and enforce ‘social distancing’. These measures were taken on the advice of ‘experts’ who based their prescriptions on constantly revised predictive computer models, which are themselves based on incomplete data on the spread and deadliness of the disease. But models by their nature tend to discount opportunity costs and unintended consequences from their calculations. |
Call for Papers |
Hestia 2021 is not a conference about COVID-19 per se, but the current situation offers a timely opportunity to examine the role of experts and specialists in society,
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Credits and Sources |
[1] HESTIA 2021 : Expertise in the aftermath of COVID-19: Unintended consequences, opportunity costs, and uncertainty in complex societies |