Back in the last “lockdown” I linked to various pieces of work by other economists attempting to make sense of, evaluate etc, choices the government was making. There was Ian Harrison’s work challenging some of the modelling estimates the Prime Minister liked to wave around and some aspects of the “Level 4” restrictions. There was an early attempt at a cost-benefit analysis by Bryce Wilkinson of the New Zealand Initiative, and another exercise looking at a similar question in a different way by John Gibson at Waikato University. There was another exercise that I never wrote about, but reported and linked to here, by Martin Lally, a consultant economist and former Victoria University academic.
What was striking, even at the time, was that there was no sign that the government had commissioned from officials, or officials had undertaken anyway, any sort of serious cost-benefit analysis of the sorts of…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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