Minimalists and Hoarders (with Michael Easter)

Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to econalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links and other information related to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econalk.org. We'd love to hear from you. Today's January seventh, twenty twenty five. I wanna thank everyone who voted in the survey of your favorite episodes of twenty twenty four. I'll have the results soon. And now for today's guest, author, Michael Easter. His sub stack is called two percent.

This is his third appearance on Econ Talk. He was last year in October of twenty twenty three. Talking about excess moderation and the scarcity brain. Michael, welcome back to Econ Talk. Thanks for having me back, Ross. Our topic for today is based on an essay you wrote. on your sub stack uh

Why minimalism doesn't work. So nominally we're gonna talk about minimalism, but inevitably we're gonna talk about a number of related topics and maybe some unrelated topics. Let's start with the definition. Uh what is minimalism? I think minimalism is um well I think it's a new thing in the grand scheme of time and space. I I will say that. Um but I think it's a desire to

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