Prometheus and The Worried Well

How much medical knowledge is too much? How much is too little? How does knowledge of mortality prompt and/or stall human flourishing?

Feb 16, 2025

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Robert F. Graboyes is an economist, journalist, and musician who publishes at the Substack, Bastiat’s Window. This essay thinks about medical certainty and its relation to human flourishing. A free version now appears on Robert’s Substack.

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Robert F. Graboyes

Bob Graboyes is an economist, journalist & musician who publishes Bastiat's Window on Substack. A Columbia U. PhD, he worked at Chase Manhattan Bank, the Fed, NFIB, Mercatus Center & 5 universities. He won the 2014 Bastiat Prize for Journalism.