Are You Happy Being Poor?

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i've counselled a number of young people to take jobs that theyre uneasy about. Maybe i shouldn't, i don't know. But i counsel them to do the thing they love. Ah, you don't need infinite amount of stuff. It's great to spend eight hours a day doing something you love. And in particular, teaching, i've told people to go into a high school and and lower levels of teaching because it makes their hearts think, and that counts. So i want to suggest that behavior of economicsa, it's critique of economics, i think it is, actually has its own level of sterility,. which is, oh, people aren't that rational

Author, economist, and theologian Mary Hirschfeld of Villanova University talks about her book, Aquinas and the Market, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Hirschfeld looks at the nature of our economic activity as buyers and sellers and whether our pursuit of economic growth and material well-being comes at a cost. She encourages a skeptical stance about the ability of more stuff to produce true happiness and/or satisfaction. The conversation includes a critique of economic theory and the aspect of human satisfaction outside the domain of economists.