The Constraint of Meaning

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"I'm not sure what to take away from that. Let me try to summarize the amazing part," he says. "Then I want to apply it to something really personal and embarrassing that it's worse than your story of sleeping badly that night." He goes on to say there are psychopaths like a wicked woman in front of him, who was looking for a big stupid guy because it wouldn't have worked.

Economist and author Michael Munger of Duke University talks about human wants and desires with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Human beings have desires about our desires. Can we change what we want? And how should economists and normal human beings think about doing the right thing, what we often call morality? Is acting morally self-interested behavior or is it possible to act selflessly?