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Covid-19 Crisis: Alessandro del Ponte on Moral Dilemmas with Economic Consequences

Alessandro del Ponte is a research fellow at the National University of Singapore working in the Behavioral Change program at the Global Asia Institute. He recently earned his PhD in behavioral political economy from Stony Brook University in New York. His recent research uses simple video games to understand how people feel about making tradeoffs between jobs and paying off national debt, or between saving lives in the national healthcare system or paying off the national debt.

We decided to connect with Alessandro because of President Trump’s recent comment: The cure shouldn’t be worse than the problem. Clearly, we have a moral dilemma: open the country to save the economy or kill 10’s of thousands of people with the virus?

We hope you enjoy this very philosophical discussion.

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AIRDATE: April 14, 2020 EPISODE 135

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Covid-19 Crisis: Alessandro del Ponte on Moral Dilemmas with Economic Consequences

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Alessandro del Ponte, PhD