What we’re grateful for – Marginal REVOLUTION

Here is the Free Press symposium, here is my contribution:

Tyler Cowen, columnist

I am grateful for how many parts of the world I can visit freely. I have been to roughly 105 countries and have not had serious problems getting to them, entering them, or leaving them. Nor have I contracted any serious illnesses abroad.

I do feel some recent growth in restrictions. For instance, I cannot go to Russia and be assured of my safety, nor would I feel comfortable visiting Ukraine at the current moment, given the ongoing Russian attacks. Nonetheless, so very much of the world is accessible to us, whenever we wish to be there.

This is an unparalleled opportunity, without precedent in the history of mankind.