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34. Bryan Caplan - Voters as Mad Scientists

Ideas Having Sex

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The Importance of Rational Irrationality

The author says he is the source of almost all uses of rational irrationality. It's essentially some amount of just what you were saying, writes David Frum. "It's rational for people to have irrational beliefs about topics that don't actually have any practical impact"

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