Gigi Foster is a Professor and Director of Education at The School of Economics at UNSW Business School. She holds qualifications in ethics, politics and economics, and has been speaking out against the ‘Covid Panic’ from the very beginning of the pandemic.
Professor Foster was one of the first to publish a cost-benefit analysis of lockdowns, and quickly came to the conclusion that governments around the world are causing net harm on the lives of their citizens, both from a quality of life perspective and a biological survival perspective.
This discussion is our Christmas present to all who care to receive it – a discussion full of rationality and sense-making, ending with broader perspectives and predictions on what 2022 will look like.
Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/wDgDWaXWeyY
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GIGI FOSTER
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https://www.amazon.com.au/Great-Covid-Panic-What-Happened/dp/1630692778
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1:38 What do economists really care about?
9:00 The Great Covid Panic
11:25 The global fear overreaction
15:15 Crowd formation and its psychology
21:20 Protests in Victoria and their potential
28:09 Discrimination is unsustainable in a competitive market
32:11 Working around the system and educational resources for people
42:10 Future predictions for Western democratic nations
51:05 Institutions that will crumble and institutions that will survive
53:32 The ‘right side of history’
55:45 Breaking down the Australian population
1:00:57 Is the global Covid response utilitarianism on steroids?
1:12:00 Virtue signalling
1:15:40 We need more humour
