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All policies are wrong, but some are useful—and which ones do no harm?

Brito, Mario; Chipulu, Maxwell; Dawson, Ian G; Hanoch, Yaniv; Katsikopoulos, Konstantinos V

Authors

Mario Brito

Ian G Dawson

Yaniv Hanoch

Konstantinos V Katsikopoulos



Abstract

The five of us research and teach risk analysis with an eye towards decision support. Our work has been dedicated to taming risks and helping to make challenging decisions. But nothing had prepared us for the Covid-19 pandemic. We first had to grapple with the news coming from abroad, including, for some of us, our home countries. Then, some information and research, but mostly opinions, started coming in from our academic community, and we felt the tensions. Finally, the UK went into an unofficial and then official lockdown, and all University staff were asked to redirect their research capacity so as to support the national effort for risk analysis and decision support. As we write this on the 20th of April, many countries, including the UK, are starting to consider how to get out of lockdown. Like the previous stages of the pandemic, there is little data, perhaps a bit more research, surely many more opinions, and definitely an overwhelming amount of personal experiences and thoughts. Here we reflect on all of the above, just in case it can help the readers of this Minds in Society flash editorial to think and act, or at least, to not have to do so entirely on their own. As it can be expected, our collage introduces more questions than it can answer.

Citation

Brito, M., Chipulu, M., Dawson, I. G., Hanoch, Y., & Katsikopoulos, K. V. (2021). All policies are wrong, but some are useful—and which ones do no harm?. Mind and Society, 20, 119-122. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11299-020-00251-3

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Aug 3, 2020
Online Publication Date Aug 9, 2020
Publication Date 2021-06
Deposit Date Sep 19, 2021
Publicly Available Date Sep 20, 2021
Print ISSN 1593-7879
Electronic ISSN 1860-1839
Publisher Springer
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 20
Pages 119-122
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11299-020-00251-3
Keywords Covid-19, Risk, Decision, Policy
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2802230

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