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#531 - Russ Roberts - An Economist’s Guide To Life’s Big Decisions

Modern Wisdom

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The Expected Value Calculator for a Parent's Choice

The subtitle of the book is a guide to the decisions that define us. These are decisions about whether to marry, who to marry, whether they're children, where to live, career, what kind of a friend to be. They're much more than just the sum of everyday pleasure and pain that I accumulate through the course of living. And if I only take that perspective, I'm gonna miss out on the overarching things I think matter dignity, self-respect, a feeling of living the way one should live.

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