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Strange questions I ask Bryan Caplan
Assuming you start from a multi-dimensional global utility maximum, which Lancastrian characteristics -- with non-trivial shadow prices -- would you like more of in a corresponding unconstrained equilibrium?
Forget about money or time, which obviously we all want more of. Which unbundlings do you desire?
I, for one, would like to have more of Bryan. But he is bundled with Fairfax. I travel a great deal and he usually stays put. I can't get much more of him in my first best outcome. But if he were suddenly eating kabobs with me in Hyderabad, if only for an hour, how fun that would be. More generally, I would like to have a less wide circle of friends but my Wanderlust interferes.
I would like taste to be unbundled from calories. I would like books to be smaller, lighter, and easier to carry, if that were a free lunch so to speak. I would like fantasy novels to be bound by stricter rules.
What would you like to see unbundled?
Posted by Tyler Cowen on June 23, 2006 at 03:06 AM in Economics | Permalink
Comments
My boyfriend, from some of his lifestyle choices and friends. :)
Posted by: Jacqueline at Jun 23, 2006 4:29:19 AM
If those are the kind of questions you ask him, no wonder you see little of him! :-)
As for unbundling... carbohidrates from their taste and some of the more absurd requirements from my school work.
Posted by: Gabriel Mihalache at Jun 23, 2006 5:32:37 AM
What we need is a bundle of Allen & Sons pork + Bullocks sauce.
Posted by: people at duke at Jun 23, 2006 8:02:59 AM
Can we unbundle libertarian thought from political impotence?
Posted by: Jason Ligon at Jun 23, 2006 9:13:15 AM
My top unbundlings:
1. Radical Empiricism and Tyler.
(Tyler's powers would increase 10-fold.)
2. Fox and Rupert Murdoch
(Think of all the great shows that never would have been cancelled in the first place: The Critic, Family Guy, Futurama ... man I hate that guy.)
3. Christianity and the GOP.
(They'd both be better alone.)
4. Rothbard and Paleoism
(Market Anarchism wouldn't seem so idiosyncratic and subtly racist.)
5. Thomism and Thomists
(Thomism minus its Procrustean, crotchety adherents would be a joy.)
6. Roman Catholicism and Papal Infallibility
(If neither side's interpretations are infallible, reconciliation is possible.)
7. The Method of Analytic Political Philosophers and Suspicion that Economics is a Science
(Mass Conversion to more libertarian views.)
Posted by: Selfreferencing at Jun 23, 2006 10:15:06 AM
I would like to unbundle the suffering and slaughtering of animals from our diets.
Posted by: Macneil at Jun 23, 2006 10:32:10 AM
Freedom from responsibility, duh!
Posted by: Noah Yetter at Jun 23, 2006 11:51:18 AM
Most of what we call taste is actually smell, so taste is already pretty unbundled from calories. What
you really want is to unbundle that chemical high you get from swallowing easily digested food and
calories (or kilojoules as we call them in the ten fingered world). This reminds me, I should check how
monkey chow man is doing.
Posted by: Ronald Brak at Jun 23, 2006 12:11:55 PM
clark durant and his beard.
Posted by: utah at Jun 23, 2006 1:37:56 PM
Is there any unbundling that transcends the "Consequence From Indulgence" template?
I mean, we already have Big Government and an Army of Tort to deal with That.
Posted by: caveatBettor at Jun 23, 2006 2:36:30 PM
Gender(ed behavior, expectations, appearance, division of labor) from sex(ual proclivities, chromosomes, hormones).
Posted by: eliot at Jun 23, 2006 4:32:01 PM
Introspection and depression.
Posted by: Paul N at Jun 23, 2006 6:40:27 PM
alcohol from headaches.
guilt from sex.
learning from mistakes.
dumb movies from cool special effects.
wisdom from hair loss.
archy from mehetibel.
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