Worldviews are more a mental security blanket than a serious effort to understand the world
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
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
The best social insurance is to make more progress, not to make more work - Bryan Caplan
The best social insurance is to make more progress, not to make more work
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
There are two sources of error: Either you lack sufficient data, or you fail to take advantage of the data that you have.
Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectatio… - Bryan Caplan
Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectatio…
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
There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with high…
Worldviews are more a mental security blanket than a serious effort to understand the world - 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
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…
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
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…
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
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.
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