What Have You Learned From the Two Thousand Ht Crisis?

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Even folks who struggle to find work place activity that does that, have leisure activity. And the things you can do in your time now are really rather remarkable. I hope another 400 page book, won't get hold of me because that's going a little too far. That's overdoing it. But, but i think that the people really need to be to be engaged in in doing things,. having the excitement o striving and and all these other amenities.

Edmund Phelps of Columbia University, Nobel Laureate in economics, and author of Mass Flourishing talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book. Phelps argues that human flourishing requires challenges, struggles, and success and goes beyond material prosperity. He argues that in recent decades, policy has discouraged innovation and mass flourishing resulting in a slow-down in growth rates. Phelps emphasizes the non-material benefits of economic growth and the importance of small innovations over big inventions as key to that growth.