by Tyler Cowen
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A Stubborn Attachment to Yonas
One theme of Stubborn Attachments is that economic growth in the wealthier countries has positive spillover effects for poorer individuals around the world. If you think of the publication of this book as a form of economic growth/GDP enhancement, I want to boost its positive global effects. I also argue in Stubborn Attachments that we should be more charitable and altruistic at the margin. That includes me!
So, having written Stubborn Attachments, I now wish to live the book, so to speak. I am donating the earnings from the book to a man I met in Ethiopia on a fact-finding trip earlier this year. I shall call him Yonas (not his real name).
He is a man of modest means, but he aspires to open his own travel business. He has a young and growing family, and also a mother to support. He is also hoping to buy a larger house to accommodate his growing family. In his life, he faces stresses—financial and otherwise—that I have never had to confront. When I visited his home, his wife had just had a new baby girl, but Yonas’s income depends on the vicissitudes of tourist demand, and by American standards it is in any case low.
I met Yonas when he served as my travel guide around Lalibela. I spent a full day with him touring the underground, rock-hewn stone churches of that city. He struck me as reliable, conscientious, well informed, and I was impressed by the quality of his English, which he had acquired on his own. He also took me by his village to meet his family, and they performed a coffee ceremony for me, cooking freshly ground coffee beans (it was delicious, something I had never imagined). Based on my impressions from that day, I believe an investment in Yonas will help his entire family and perhaps his broader community as well. Since then, he and I have kept in touch by email.
As another way of living the content of my book, I will be sending the funds via Stripe, Stripe Press being the publisher of this book. Stripe, a technology and payments company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet, really has made it easy to send money across borders, thereby helping to knit the whole world together. I hope someday Yonas is able to start his travel business, or whatever else he may wish to do, with the help of Stripe Atlas.
I suppose this means I will remain stubbornly attached to Yonas. And with the publication of this book, Stripe Press is now stubbornly attached to me.
—Tyler Cowen