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.
As we determine where to allocate effort and money, when to keep going and when to give up, different production functions call for different strategies. Yet, we rarely consider what production functions can tell us about our progress.
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.