The Importance of Crass Materialism
Posted in Standards of Living, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Oct 18th, 2010
Early on in my principles of economics course, I spend a good deal of time demonstrating to students just how fantastically far we have come (in America and the world around) in a material sense (and in many other senses too). Too much data to show here, but for example, in just the course of […]