Control the virus – The daily blog of behavioral and cognitive economics

Control, intervention, and behavioral economics over human social networks against COVID-19

Throughout the past year and during this one too, uncountable ways of stopping propagation of the COVID-19 virus –which has been devastating the planet for many months– have been proposed. The lockdown was one of these measures. The most famous one, in fact. It was proposed to stop infection and isolated millions of people in their houses around the world. Authors of this research propose novel ways of control the propagation of the virus, from technological and also behavioral economics’ sights. We are going to talk about them. They start with the idea that controlling human social networks and the physical contacts that happen in them, it is not a simple task because human behavior is unpredictable and uncertain. ….[READ]