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

The blogger Tyler Cowen, in his book "Stubborn Attachments," exemplifies a miserably inadequate, and failed, line of thought about future human flourishing. (This article was first published December 7, 2018.)Show more

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"Finally, the age of sophisters and calculators has fully arrived, and its herald is Tyler Cowen. He, economist and blogger, is here to tell us the purpose of life. It is to die with the most toys. Well, that, plus maximum freedom to do whatever we want with our toys while we are still alive. Stubborn Attachments is just about the sort of thing you’d expect from a left-libertarian philosopher, namely a clever and partially accurate construct that is internally coherent, but floats free of human reality and ignores any human value other than that found in the box labeled 'Approved By John Stuart Mill.' . . .