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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 03 May 2009 11:29:56PM 0 points [-]

Richard Posner on the economics of the flu epidemic:

We need an overall "catastrophe budget" that would match expenditures to the net expected benefits of particular measures targeted at particular catastrophic threats.