I loved it because it's nuanced. I was once confronted by a physicist who said to me at a social setting, is economics, do economists know anything? So that's kind of as far as I got. And finally, I told him about emergent order and the idea that things, there's complexity in human affairs,. Much of which appears in say how prices form. He said, well, that's interesting. Okay. But he wasn't being sarcastic. Yeah, I understand. It's only 23 pages. No, just longer than that. But a book that's all that you know, it's surprisingly short, it's under 400 pages, three something. You're very
Do psychologists know anything? Psychologist Paul Bloom says yes--but not the things that you might think. Bloom discusses his book Psych with EconTalk's Russ Roberts and what the field of psychology can teach us about human intelligence, consciousness, and unhelpful instincts. They also discuss just how far psychology is from a true understanding of the human mind, and why, according to Bloom, that might not be such a bad thing.