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34. Bryan Caplan - Voters as Mad Scientists

Ideas Having Sex

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The Importance of Political Rationality in Economics

There is sort of an issue where psychologists are generally so uniformly left-wing that it is hard for them to go and say, hey, maybe some of this very strong left-wing stuff is dogmatic and wrong. But you know, like, out of psychologists who explicitly do political rationality, I think they're quite good. You know, Phil Tettlock, who I consider to be the best political psychologist of all time, a big fan of his work. He actually brought the blurb for voters and that scientist. So he sure did.

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