To Solve COVID-19, We Need to See It for What It Is: A Configuration Crisis
We have the necessary raw materials to deal with the pandemic—where we fail is in matching skills and resources to the problems they could fix.
Lee Anne Fennell is the Max Pam Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. She is the author of The Unbounded Home (2009) and Slices and Lumps: Division and Aggregation in Law and Life.
We have the necessary raw materials to deal with the pandemic—where we fail is in matching skills and resources to the problems they could fix.
Humans are remarkably sensitive to how we bundle and divide tasks and choices. We can use that quirk to help realize our aspirations.