Why Our World Started in 1979
Economists don’t know much about how ideas drive economic change.
Tagged: rational ignorance
Right by Accident: Science and Rational Ignorance
Scientific knowledge is like any other area of specialized knowledge: the average person is rationally ignorant and will use ideology and rules-of-thumb, rather than the expert knowledge that they do not possess, to guide their behavior.
Why We Should Fear a Do-Something Congress
The public has a penchant of demanding action, but not necessarily action that solves the problem. In the case of cybersecurity, what action Congress will take may be defined by special interests who have a greater incentive to fill in the details.
Why I Was Wrong About Transparency
Conservatives, liberals, and libertarians have made common cause in the open government movement, each for different reasons. Libertarians believer that transparency will lead to limited government because the more people see the reality of their government, the more they will conclude that it’s too expensive and it does not work. That’s probably wrong.
