DISQUS

"It's not procrastination, it's The Incredible Just-In-Time Workload Management System(tm)!"

Why pick only one?

You may want to consider APA Task Force on Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns before moving your priors very far.

On-going (general) economic growth seems such a wonderful thing in the context of the "hedonic treadmill". Strange that mentions of the latter are so rarely matched with mentions of the former.

Wayne, there's a distinction between what even the best teachers in the country can do and what the best schools in the country actually do. I suspect that Will would be willing to stipulate that there may well be someone else in the country, possibly presently employed as a teacher, who would outperform him in educating his children in a one-on-one (or close to) home setting. Schools aren't organized that way.

With income tax driving a wedge between cost to an employer and income to an employee, even if one could find such a full-time tutor in whom one had such trust, the cost would be prohibitive for the vast majority.

Thank you for the clarification. If Tyler Cowen's forthcoming book addresses that, I'll buy a copy!

If that's what you want, to my mind you were misleading in asking for something that argues "that maintaining a relatively high rate of economic growth is morally mandatory for a good government (or is a necessary condition for justice, or legitimacy, or anything like that)", and for complaining about the lack of materials on "growth as a cardinal social and political value".

In your clarified request are you claiming that you're having difficulty finding writings that link economic growth with individual people having "more money, more freedom, more life-options, better health, longer lives, etc."?

I don't understand why _The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth_ by Benjamin M. Friedman does not meet your requirements. It does make the case that economic growth promotes democracy, openness, and tolerance.