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Prof. Kevin J. Kircher

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It's hard to compare or optimize pathways when there are so many different, and often competing, goals. One pathway might cost less but sicken and kill more people. Another might cost a lot but also create a ton of jobs. And so on.

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To deal with this issue, modelers usually convert all the various objectives to a single performance metric. Almost always, that metric is money.

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