Bryan Caplan on Voters as Mad Scientists

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.4 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Mike has another conversation with one of his all-time favorite guests: Bryan Caplan. Bryan is an economist at George Mason University, a prolific author, and blogs at Bet on It. In this episode, they discuss Bryan’s latest collection: Voters as Mad Scientists: Essays on Political Irrationality. Topics Mike & Bryan Discuss Include: - Twitter & Nazis & Meth (oh my!) - why Bryan hates politics - social desirability bias - hyperbole and overconfidence - innumeracy - the irrationality of voters - if irrationality has gotten worse - why Bryan doesn’t vote - the case for DEI being worse than McCarthyism - politics as not utterly hopeless but “mostly hopeless” - some small reasons for cautious optimism Bryan Caplan on Twitter The Politics Guys on Facebook | Twitter Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.0	Welcome to the politics, guys,
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0:47.8	I'm Michael Baranowski, Professor of Political Science at Northern Kentucky University.
0:52.2	My guest today is Brian Kaplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University,
0:56.9	prolific author and blogger at Bet on it.
1:00.4	Brian has been a guest on the politics guys.
1:03.1	I don't know how many times at this point, but a bunch of times.
1:05.7	And that's because, well, he keeps on putting out great stuff,
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