Book · 2023 · Business & Economics
Cogs and Monsters
What Economics Is, and What It Should Be
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Now that's part of economics but in terms of thinking about what makes us happy which i think is a big underlying theme your book we're going to talk about what's progress what do we really deeply care about it seems to me that that it's true.
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A central question which you come back to many times in your book is this a good policy.
And a political backlash as you point out the book in various places just to take the most obvious example.
As you hint at in your book, the role that finance plays in the macro economy was grossly under appreciated.
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Russ Roberts now that's part of economics but in terms of thinking about what makes us happy which i think is a big unde… 6
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“now that's part of economics but in terms of thinking about what makes us happy which i think is a big underlying theme your book we're going to talk about what's progress what do we really deeply care about it seems to me that that it's true”
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“i just think that we're trying to assess a central question which you come back to many times in your book is this a good policy”
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“and a political backlash as you point out the book in various places just to take the most obvious example”
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“and then i would just add that for me and as you hint at in your book the role that finance plays in the macro economy was grossly under appreciated by almost all economists even most macro economists”
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“for me it's back to what you know the book by roger scrutin that he wrote called where you are”
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“uh i don't think the word utilitarian is in your book is it”
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