Slouching towards economic utopia (with Brad DeLong)
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
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What Is Utopie?
David Frum: What is a utopia and why do we struggle to have it? He says in the simplest level, people will no longer be greatly constrained by what material necessity compels us to do. We use our powers to command nature to manipulate nature for good, he says. Frum: The problems of slicing and tasting the pie are much less than baking a sufficiently large economic pie.
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