Interview with a Cynic

Statue of Diogenes the Cynic using a lantern to find an honest man with the aid of a dog. Image from davishighnews.com.

You may noticed that we live in a world of extreme consumerism, where economists are finally beginning to take seriously the problem posed by so-called “externalities,” that is the costs and deleterious effects associated with the production of human goods. There is much talk, nowadays, of growing food locally because of the environmental degradation caused by global trade. And ...