Cover of The Permanent Problem: The Uncertain Transition from Mass Plenty to Mass Flourishing by Brink Lindsey

The Permanent Problem: The Uncertain Transition from Mass Plenty to Mass Flourishing

Brink Lindsey

Keynes thought abundance would set us free. Lindsey asks why it has left so many people miserable.

Brink Lindsey takes up the question Keynes posed in 1930, of what people would do once the economic problem was solved, and argues that rich societies have reached mass plenty without reaching mass flourishing. He works through declining dynamism, family breakdown, falling religious participation, and the politics that follow from all three.

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Tyler Cowen

I expect I will very much agree with Brink Lindsey, The Permanent Problem: The Uncertain Transition from Mass Plenty to Mass Flourishing.

Source · January 2026

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