Monthly Archives: July 2020

Our Pandemic and Siena’s Plague: Looking Outside Lorenzetti’s Fresco

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Burying victims of the Black Death

Burying victims of the Black Death

The COVID-19 spring, and now summer, of 2020 has kept me thinking about something with which I have been preoccupied for about a year now: the fresco series by Ambrogio Lorenzetti known as the Allegory of Good and Bad Government, Continue reading →

Efficiency Meets the Pandemic: The Shortage of N95 Masks

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N95 face maskOne hallmark of a market-driven economy is efficiency, i.e. manufacturing a product at the lowest cost. However, some problems exist with always being driven to reduce cost. One problem is that Continue reading →