Slouching towards economic utopia (with Brad DeLong)
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
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Having Extra Calories Isn't a Problem
I spend three hours a day thinking about how desperately I want more calories right now. Once an idea is invented, it should be given away and used worldwide. We are 30 years later in starting to deal with the fact that our carbon dioxide emissions are cooking the planet. Our big problem is not that people stay in school too long because you know it's fun the party on Friday night, but rather that people don't learn enough. If we could once again make education free I think very quickly we'd find we had a much much more productive citizenry.
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