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Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals (Tyler Cowen)

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

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The West Doesn't Have Children Anymore

Coen takes some time to accurately gloss the material improvements of modern life granted to us by the west, channelling stephen pinker. His point is that we want to continue these improvements, life expectancy, food availability, reduced working hours and so forth. Neither cohan nor pinker would have much sympathy with james c. Scott's claim that primitive man may be happier man. Arly, people 100 years from now will be much better off if economic growth continues.

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