Scott Lincicome: The Race for Vaccines and Global Collaboration in Science and Commerce

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🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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What has the Covid-19 pandemic and the race for vaccines taught us about government and private sector capabilities? How should we think about questions related to free trade, the global economy, and collaboration among scientists internationally? According to Scott Lincicome, a leading international trade attorney and senior fellow at the Cato Institute, the pandemic powerfully demonstrates the importance of an America that is open to trade, scientific talent wherever it is found, and an economy that is open to the world. While not denying a pivotal role for government in the arc of scientific innovation, Lincicome argues that the private sector in America should focus on its traditional strengths in research and development while advancing trading relationships with our partners around the world. At the same time, he argues, we should resist the growing temptation to pick winners in the economy as it leads to cronyism and corruption.

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0:00.0	And the Hi, I'm Bill Crystal. Welcome back to Conversations. I'm very pleased to be
0:18.9	joined again. Actually, we had a good conversation about a little over two years
0:22.2	ago by Scott Linsicum, trade scholar and
0:26.3	practitioner, but broader thinker on things economic and globalized and globalizing as well and senior fellow at the Cato Institute, lawyer in private practice.
0:38.6	Scott, thanks for joining me.
0:40.6	Thanks for having me.
0:41.6	Good to be back.
0:43.0	If only virtually.
0:44.0	Yes, well, next time.
0:45.0	Next time in person.
0:47.0	Exactly.
0:48.0	You've been working at home virtually for quite a while, right?
0:51.0	As a lawyer at a big firm.
0:52.0	I mean... I've been living in the cloud for I've been the trendsetter
0:55.7	None of none of this if you may say so yourself right right the only new thing is at having my entire family at home too, which does present new challenges.
1:05.3	Yeah, yeah, we should have eventually, we'll end up with the reversal of what was the practice
1:09.2	for most of the last 200 years, which is the kick the, you know, the, you'll work at home and you'll kick the family out of the well that is what will happen the kids will go back to school and you'll be home yeah exactly and I you know you need a lock for your office door that's the number one rule for for pandemic working from home. That seems
1:24.8	contrary to the spirit of Cato, open borders, you know, free access, but that's okay.
1:29.3	You know, they've once got their limits, right? That's right, even the most libertarian among us.
1:34.4	So I thought you were a terrific piece a couple of months ago
1:37.2	on the vaccine, the development of the vaccine,
1:39.4	and sort of lessons to be learned from that is an unusual task that the private sector and government faced there in January, February, beginning in what almost exactly a year ago really January of 2020.
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