Mike Munger: The idea of certain political solutions being more fantasy than reality, I think will be the hint that captures that is anything you want to say closing about anything we've talked about today. Mike has talked about this before on the program for those longtime Munger fans. "I want to encourage people to continue to think about this problem of cultivating what sort of person I should be," he says.
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?