Bryan Caplan Quotes

In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?

There are two sources of error: Either you lack sufficient data, or you fail to take advantage of the data that you have.

The best social insurance is to make more progress, not to make more work

Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectations.

Worldviews are more a mental security blanket than a serious effort to understand the world

If you can't feel secure - and teach your children to feel secure - about 1-in-610,000 nightmare scenarios - the problem isn't the world. It's you.

Let us designate anarchism1 anarchism as you define it. Let us desiginate anarchism2 anarchism as I and the American Heritage College Dictionary define it.