Posted by Todd Zywicki: Charles Murray on "The Happiness of the People": http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_03_15-2009_03_21.shtml#1237422333
Last week I heard Charles Murray speak at the AEI annual dinner and the topic of his remarks was "[1]The Happiness of the People." I thought it an extraordinarily insightful and challenging speech, especially for someone with strong law & econ instincts like myself. It is really a remarkable statement on what exactly it means to be human and to engage in a "life well-lived" as he puts it. Almost every reader will find something to disagree with in it (I know some of the people at my table did). But at its root I think that Murray is onto something important about what it means to live, flourish, and be happy as a human being. For me, at least, after 43 years on this planet I think I'm coming to appreciate many of the things Murray has to say about what makes a satisfying, rewarding life much better than I did in my younger days. References 1. http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.29531/pub_detail.asp _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
