UChicago’s Casey Mulligan Highlights ‘Tragic and Knowable’ Lockdown Consequences, Warns Against the Seduction of Central Planning

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University of Chicago Professor Casey Mulligan, formerly the chief economist for the Council of Economic Advisers, has spent the past several years highlighting the predictable damage of COVID-19 lockdowns. He recently participated in a moving Committee to Unleash Prosperity panel discussion on lesso...

University of Chicago Professor Casey Mulligan, formerly the chief economist for the Council of Economic Advisers, has spent the past several years highlighting the predictable damage of COVID-19 lockdowns. He recently participated in a moving Committee to Unleash Prosperity panel discussion on lessons learned from the pandemic and published a Wall Street Journal op-ed detailing the deadly consequences of the “draconian steps taken to mitigate” COVID.

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Jay Bhattacharya 1mos

Great piece by Jack Pfefferkorn @ThinkerChicago: "@caseybmulligan put the matter bluntly: “From an economic view, we knew in March 2020 what we would find two years later—that lockdowns did not work.”"