My Best Interview Ever
If Russ Roberts asks you to do a podcast for EconTalk, you’d be a fool to refuse. He gave me the most perceptive and engaging interview I’ve ever done. (And Robin Hanson tells me the same about his EconTalk podcast, too).
A few highlights:
Russ tells a great story about the time he criticized the minimum wage at a picnic – and noticed other people inching away from him on the picnic blanket.
Why voters are much less likely than consumers to “learn from their mistakes.”
Why the “rationally ignorant” would be agnostic, not dogmatic.
Russ has me explain why I say that “Irrationality is political pollution.”
Why democratic fundamentalism, not market fundamentalism, is the real problem of modern politics.
I had a lot of fun last year doing an EconTalk podcast on labor economics, but at least for me, the latest one was way better.
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