The Selfish Reason to Have More Kids: The Book?

I like the idea, people get so much negatives about haveing children your book can bring some balance. Maybe you could work in some talk about how slow growth policies in many places push up the price of homes (see Edward Glaeser http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/glaeser/papers.html) and that impacts family formation and birth rates.

You should have said "Sure, I'd be glad to" and then wrote it later that day and called some publishers saying you're booked on GMA already.

Splendid! In fact, GMA could book a double-bill by inviting me on to talk about my "modest" non-existent book, "101 Irish Recipes for Children."

Definitely write this! You have a rather unique perspective on this (for a guy; although Landsburg talks about the economics, you seem to have personal experience with advocating child-rearing). With the success of your other book it'll be no trouble to get it published.

Hell, yeah!

If everyone else has more kids, it will make the world better for us. So go generate those positive externalities!

I was thinking recently that it would be cool to have a donation system for getting your friends to have kids. Basically, you put up X$, and they can see the total amount put up. And they get it when they have a kid.

Really, the site this is on should be generalized, allowing people to offer money for any condition being met, and with margins (so if you put in $100, you can make offers on $500 worth of things that won't happen often. When $100 of them happen, you get a margin call which says you have to put in more money, or your bids will be withdrawn).

But wouldn't encouraging cool people to have kids be a good application?

definitely put the twins on the cover... :)

If you are looking for co-authors you know where to reach me.

I'd buy it.

Are you ready to be sued for all the harm that these you-inpired children will cause? Every unwanted pregnancy, driving accident, murder, bankrupcy, .....?

Make it a graphic novel.

You should have told them about your actual book.
Then they could have had a segment called Good Morning, Irrational America.

I notice on the original blog post, the notion of a discount rate is completely absent.

There's also the Make Love and War argument.

Low population growth is viewed as a weakness by AQ types and is a very big part of why they attack us. Make the world safer by having more babies! In the interest of national security, we should create a tax holiday for households who have a baby in the 9-12 months following a terrorist attack.

Fight terrorism by making it clear that any violent thought will cause ten more western women to get pregnant.

Safety in numbers you know.

Patri, is see a meeting of markets, one of potential parents looking for funding, and the other that pays out to those parents based on conditions being met or specific events happening.

Dezakin wrote:

I notice on the original blog post, the notion of a discount rate is completely absent.