The Economics of Ignorant Voters. Bryan Caplan & Keith Knight

Bryan Caplan is a professor of Economics at George Mason University

Buy Bryan Caplan’s books here: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Bryan+Caplan&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

Bryan Caplan’s articles: https://www.econlib.org/author/bcaplan/

Bryan Caplan’s website: http://www.bcaplan.com/

Website of Zach Weinersmith, co-author of Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration: https://www.smbc-comics.com/

My previous discussion with Bryan Caplan: https://youtu.be/eBiP_kAlp70

0:00 - Quote

0:37 - The Paradox of Democracy

1:08 - Are voters ignorant?

2:46 - Is the solution to educate the populace?

4:30 - Ignorance in the market v. political sphere

6:04 - Why aren’t ignorant voters humble?

8:39 - Anti-market bias

10:15 - Paul Krugman’s inconsistent free market criticism - Fallacy of Unattainable Perfection

14:09 - Anti-foreign bias

20:39 - Pessimistic bias

24:15 - Thesis of The Case Against Education

25:20 - Thesis of Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids (unable to find corresponding video)

30:50 - Public choice theory

33:22 - Define economics

36:14 - Why some countries are rich and others are poor

41:10 - Profits over people?

50:01 - What makes wages rise?

51:11 - What made you an Anarcho-Capitalist?

54:22 - Most important thing you learned from Don Boudreaux?

57:45 - Favorite economist?