Why Steven Landsburg Is Delusional, On Drugs, Or Should Be Taking Them I never thought it to be possible for someone to be so caught up in an emotional ideology of economics and money until I read an excerpt from “The Armchair Economist: Economics in Everyday Life” called “Why I Am Not An Environmentalist” by Steven E. Landsburg, because as much “honest scrutiny and logic” as he claims to apply to his arguments, they still somehow end up utterly illogical. This is why I see him more as “The Emotional Economist”. In the very beginning of the essay Landsburg informs us that economics is the science of competing preferences, and that environmentalism goes beyond science when it elevates matters of preference to matters of morality. This is all the discussion he provides on the basis of morality to this point. Logically speaking, why can’t ....

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