Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals

by Tyler Cowen

We need to make more room for justice and beauty.

In the mid-nineteenth century, a typical worker might have put in somewhere between 2,800 and 3,300 hours of work a year; that estimate is now closer to 1,400 to 2,000 hours a year.

We should choose the course that is most likely to be correct, keeping in mind that at the end of the day we are still more likely to be wrong than right.

We should be more concerned with the fragility of our civilization.