This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, April 28th, 2020.

I'm Caleb Brown.

During a pandemic, there's no room for bad governance,

but much of what we've seen during this pandemic has been private sector efforts

to help effectively stymied by outmoded government rules.

The Cato Institute has just published evasive entrepreneurs and the future of governance.

In the book Adam Theerer explores why innovators of all stripes, medical researchers included,

are now using new technological capabilities to pressure policymakers to reform laws and regulations

that are outmoded in efficient or counterproductive.

We spoke last week.

Well, what's been amazing to me over the course of this crisis is the fact that so

many average Americans have risen up in anger and frustration with government officials and agencies about their response efforts to the

COVID outbreak.

And the result has been a sudden surge of evasive entrepreneurialism and technological civil

disobedience with institutions and policies collapsing all around us

people are taking advantage of all sorts of new exciting technological

capabilities devices and tools to come up with pragmatic solutions to tough

real world problems and in this case in an attempt to basically improve or save lives

as government has really mangled this response.

Any examples?

Yeah, there's been lots of examples of how average folks have risen up to help.

I mean, think about all of the distilleries around the country, who started producing hand sanitizers to address shortages or other people online

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