Worldviews are more a mental security blanket than a serious effort to understand the world

- Bryan Caplan

In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?

- Bryan Caplan

Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectatio…

- Bryan Caplan

There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with high…

- Bryan Caplan

The best social insurance is to make more progress, not to make more work

- Bryan Caplan

In a modern democracy, not only can a libertarian be elitist; a libertarian has to be elitist. To be a libertarian in a modern democracy is to say th…

- Bryan Caplan

The use of force is easy to rationalize in terms of basic economics. 'We should make them PAY for what they've done!' It's just the law of demand: ra…

- Bryan Caplan

If you can't feel secure - and teach your children to feel secure - about 1-in-610,000 nightmare scenarios - the problem isn't the world. It's you.

- Bryan Caplan

There are two sources of error: Either you lack sufficient data, or you fail to take advantage of the data that you have.

- Bryan Caplan