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Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: belief
22 Jun 2016 Conversations with Tyler Cass Sunstein on Judicial Minimalism, the Supreme Court, and Star Wars (Live at Mason)
“Now, you’re intrigued by the John Stuart Mill–Harriet Taylor correspondence and also by Byatt’s novel Possession from the early ’90s. I think you once said it was your favorite novel.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 22 Jun 2016
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…OK, you might. But I’m open to these ideas. In a case where someone has a terminal illness, and there’s a drug that has an extremely low probability of working, there’s a good argument that on welfare grounds they should get that because the chance of death without that, let’s stipulate, is a hundred percent, and the chance of despair without that is also a hundred percent. So if people’s tastes are such that they want to spend their money on a very small risk of living, it’s plausible to say that’s in the store, your store. Yes. Now, you’re intrigued by the John Stuart Mill–Harriet Taylor correspondence and also by Byatt’s novel Possession from the early ’90s. I think you once said it was your favorite novel. What is it that ties those two together, and what explains your fascination with them? OK, so Possession — .…
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