A pandemic seems a good time for congestion pricing. Instead of having crude rules closing schools, stores, etc., add fees to increase the price of traveling to interact with others.
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Right, and maybe we should generally tax international flights for this reason (even when there's no sign on a pandemic). The money could be used for improved pandemic defences.https://twitter.com/StefanFSchubert/status/1235867563055140864 …
This is a very good idea and EA folks should write more about it. Price the pandemic risk externalities into the price of international air travel.
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Thanks! I wonder how large such a tax should be. This comparison between coronavirus cases and the flow of global air traffic is suggestive (though wealth may be a confounder; poor countries may have more undetected cases).https://twitter.com/Esbjornsson/status/1234818938657288193?fbclid=IwAR1kZQIFDGhbjNIGb0E4WxCH4fGGo7qt_XvYSmidYDY5NOwuX5WZtAhR3jk …
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1/2 International travel already expensive. What tax would you suggest? Conceivable there are also positive externalities to international travel like increasing tolerance, decreasing xenophobia. Hard to know if making international travel harder for lower incomes is good overall
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Negative externality of pandemic risk is easier to measure because we have good data. Harder to quantify potential positive externalities.
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