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Rational Minds Part 1: A Nation Of Gamblers - Ed Glaeser

The Joe Walker Podcast

CHAPTER

The Wild Irrationality Myth

In 1836, Chicago seemed poised to be the linchpin of a great watery arc of American transportation that went all the way from New Orleans up to New York City. Ed Rollins: No one in a bubble ever thought he was crazy. So what is going on here? Over and over again, it doesn't look unreasonable. And I think the wild irrationality myth is dangerous because it suggests that it couldn't happen to me.

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