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cord-029226-eagbwk7j	Williamson, Brian	Beyond COVID‐19 lockdown: A Coasean approach with optionality	2020-06-29		.txt	text/plain	2592	117	52	While younger people are at greatly reduced risk from COVID-19, they are on the other hand likely to suffer some of the more severe impacts in terms of forgone education, employment, and social and longer-term opportunities from measures to increase physical distancing. The combination of low health risk for younger people from COVID-19 with disproportionately high economic and social costs from the current policy response suggests that a more targeted policy response is desirable. In this article, building on a blog post where the idea was first suggested (Williamson & Wilson, 2020) , what is proposed is a Coasean social contract that recognises the reciprocal nature of the problem of mitigating the risk of harm to health, welfare, and the economy from the COVID-19 pandemic. The proposed approach could substantially reduce the economic and social cost of the COVID-19 policy response while limiting mortality and the risk of overloading the health-care system.	./cache/cord-029226-eagbwk7j.txt	./txt/cord-029226-eagbwk7j.txt