Economists like to believe that, no, non, that's not what happens. So how do you answer the question? Is your view of human behavior rational? It sounds irrational. We like rationality scales optimalities. Its different o different scales. And a there will necessarily be something which is under optimise at a given scale. I think that right now, for most people bearing some very specific conditions, and bearing people that live in a very covet fr own, i think that it's rational to vaxin for the individual. But it's also true that for the population, itis rational to have a few people who always think differently,. so that the population never goes all
Why do people eat too much even when they don't want to? Why are there so many bad managers? And why might anti-vaxxers be useful? Luca Dellanna, author of The Control Heuristic, thinks the answers to all of these questions are in our heads, or rather in our basal ganglia. Dellanna talks to EconTalk's Russ Roberts about why both brains and employees need immediate feedback, why we're wired to believe our best guesses, and why addiction is just our brain's way of making sure we survive.