Targeted Lockdowns and the Road to COVID-19 Recovery

This talk will look at how optimal targeted lockdown strategies shift the frontier of society’s choices in this crisis.

Michael Whinston is BP Visiting Professor at LSE Economics, and Professor of Economics and Sloan Fellows Professor of Management at MIT.

John Sutton is Emeritus Professor of Economics and MSc Economics and Management Programme Director at LSE.

The Department of Economics (@LSEEcon) at LSE, is one of the leading economics departments in the world. We are a large department, ensuring all mainstream areas of economics are strongly represented in research and teaching.

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