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#45 - Tyler Cowen's case for maximising econ growth, stabilising civilization & thinking long-term

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Are We Obliged to Maximize the Growth Rate of GDP?

i wasn't entirely convinced by some of the things in your book. But i think that it accords with long standing moral intuitions, like shows it's on the right track. The notion that by living a quotonq good life, but making some improvements at the margin, that that's what you're obliged to do, i find that very appealing. That's the sub header on marginal revolution. It's also a more salable vision. You don't have to re engineer human nature.

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