Richard Gunderman: When will we learn that in order to be good doctors and good human good economists, we must first become good human beings? He says treating patients as fellow pilgrims on this path that ends in mortality enhances our capacity to treat one another with compassion. "We're cut from the same cloth, made of the same alloy," he writes.
Physician and careful reader Richard Gunderman of Indiana University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how Adam Smith and Leo Tolstoy looked at greed. Drawing on Tolstoy's short story, "Master and Man," and adding some Thomas Hobbes along the way, Gunderman argues that a life well-lived requires us to rise above our lower desires. Join Gunderman and Roberts for a sleigh ride into a snowy blizzard, where you won't find your way by following rules, but rather by recognizing what needs to be seen.