"A "permanent" infrastructure program focused on projects that could be quickly undertaken would help stabilize economic fluctuations and avoid destructive cuts or delays during recessions." @JosephEStiglitz https://www.piie.com/publications/policy-briefs/fiscal-resiliency-deeply-uncertain-world-role-semiautonomous-discretion?utm_source=update-newsletter
Here is the abstract of Deaton's paper:
"There was not only no trade-off between lives and income; fewer deaths meant more income."
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/international_income_inequality_and_the_covid_v2_assembled_0.pdf
"A "permanent" infrastructure program focused on projects that could be quickly undertaken would help stabilize economic fluctuations and avoid destructive cuts or delays during recessions." @JosephEStiglitz https://www.piie.com/publications/policy-briefs/fiscal-resiliency-deeply-uncertain-world-role-semiautonomous-discretion?utm_source=update-newsletter