The Importance of Public Choice in Economics

In addition to your academic research, you also have a blog you run, Cafe Hayek. And there was a related book that came out, Hippocrates and Halfwits. So how have you used some of these public choice ideas in that more popular conversation in your academic work? What role has it played for you? The origins of that book, indeed the origins of the blogs that I write a lot of letters to the editor.