In response to Tyler Cowen’s recent Kenneth Arrow Lecture at Stanford, I am reposting below my eight-part review and critique of Cowen’s important 2018 book Stubborn Attachments:
- What moral or legal duties do we owe to future generations? (27 Nov. 2018);
- Cowen’s axiom (28 Nov. 2018);
- Cowen’s hedge (29 Nov. 2019);
- An intertemporal golden rule (29 Nov. 2019);
- Cowen’s six critical issues (part 1 of 2) (30 Nov. 2019);
- Cowen’s six critical issues (part 2 of 2) (3 Dec. 2019);
- Our critique of Stubborn Attachments (4 Dec. 2019);
- An intertemporal golden rule: closing thoughts (4 Dec. 2019).
Cowen is one the most original economists and public intellectuals of our time, so I will have a lot more to say about Cowen’s recent lecture in my next few blog posts.

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