The latest podcast at EconTalk is a conversation with Gregg Easterbrook on the ideas in his book, The Progress Paradox.
He has a lot of fascinating examples of how life is getting better. He also tries to explain why we aren’t any happier despite that improvement.
Next week: Tyler Cowen.
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I generally enjoyed the Progress Paradox, right up until Easterbrook’s analysis of the challenges facing America’s poor. Somewhere between his advocacy of minimum wage hikes, and universal health care, and the “lack of character” of 21st century American executives (how dare you take as much as someone is willing to pay you) – I began to nod off.
I’ve since torn out the offending pages – and now lend the book out to friends and family only in its redacted format so as not to reinforce typical misconceptions they likely already hold.