Work from home experiment: What if it works? Health vs. wealth

Series: Work from Home Experiment: What if it Works?

Episode 4: Health vs. Wealth

In this episode, we discuss the really hard philosophical issue in science, which is to make decisions on the basis of comparing things that are not naturally comparable. So, how many lives are comparable to how many dollars? How do we develop interventions that both maximize lives saved and minimize the economic cost?