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Why is gastronomy better than pornography?
I posed this question (off-site, not during a session) to the bloggers (and John Nye) at the Liberty Fund conference on luxury I attended last week. Both areas involve repetition, basic animal instincts, the quest for endless variations on something slightly but not very new, pleasures of the senses, and both fields attract a not-so-small number of obsessives. Gastronomy has a more exalted social status, but perhaps that is just phoney-baloney. Can you guess what the best answer to the query was?
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Posted by Tyler Cowen on February 6, 2006 at 11:11 AM in Education | Permalink
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