Gary Becker and Richard Posner on the economics of pandemic preparedness. Can’t say it is massively enlightening. But the Posner in particular has an interesting update of Foucault’s cost-benefit analysis of vaccination (in this case related to vaccine developement and other preparedness measures) to the modern global pandemic.
COLLABORATORY: VITAL SYSTEMS SECURITY
The Vital Systems Security collaboration examines how, today, security is being constituted as an object of knowledge, intervention, and political reflection. It proposes that the security of vital systems such as energy, transportation, communication and health is one norm in relationship to which security is being reproblematized. A central goal of the collaboration is to examine these issues through collective, conceptually driven inquiry that addresses rapidly developing contemporary problems.
