The pain of poverty is that people, socially do not see you. And so i'm just doing my little bit, trying to change it in this other direction. So am easy one of you know, ad ad and just and get back in the habit of seeing. I think adam smith is really on to something. It's actually, it's wy i try to practise this.
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.