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Writer's pictureJ.P. Prag

Should it cost $56 million to save one person?

And other questions about managing limited resources in ‘Conversations We Are Not Having (Part 4 of 6)’



Key Points

  • What should we do about foreign governments that own large swaths of American farmland and debt? Can we even stop them if we wanted to?

  • Why does the Federal Government have agencies that make revenue? Should the Government be in the business of making money?

  • Should we use cold-hearted, empirical data to make decisions on who lives and what parts of nature we save?


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