Ep 188: What a Long Strange Trip It's Been
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Is There a Lack of Intellectual Capacity in Politics?
Politicians' incentives deviate in two significant ways. One is the shortemism that they need to win elections all the time, and therefore want to do something which will show result immediately. And secondly, in the sense that populis, ideas sell,. That a lot of the ideas, the more complex ideas of economics, like spontaneous order and the positive some nature of a voluntary interaction, they're deeply unintuitive. You now, you have to be in the trenches.
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