Who's Afraid of Desires & Pleasures? (Re: Desire & Scarcity)

[Brad De Long]

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>Who's afraid of desires and pleasures?  Us or Doug & Eric?
>
>One more time: I'm arguing for desire & pleasure, not against it. I'm
>against the idea that D&P are products of capitalist society to be
>transcended in some vague future when basic needs are all met. The
>meeting of basic needs is the beginning of more D&P, not the end.
>
>Doug

There *is* a powerful--stoic--school of thought that holds that utopia is
reached not by sating but by limiting desires and pleasures.

Brad DeLong, off to make navy bean and spinach soup.