Behavioral Economics and Rationality

May 6, 2008

Why People Buy Insurance

April 28, 2008

The CNN Model of Violent Conflict

April 21, 2008

Diminishing Returns and Life

April 18, 2008

True Insults and False Compliments

April 18, 2008

Economic Policy for Humans? What Thaler and Sunstein Miss

April 17, 2008

Behavioral Economics Ready for (Sub) Prime Time?

April 15, 2008

The Rationality of Iran

April 6, 2008

Don't Stop, But Look Before You Leap

April 6, 2008

Please Stop

April 4, 2008

The Willpower Muscle

April 2, 2008

Why Hitler Chose the Jews

April 1, 2008

Higgs on Göring on War

March 28, 2008

Education and Beliefs About Campaign Finance: An Exception to the Rule

March 25, 2008

ROTFL

March 25, 2008

The "Too Simple to Write a Book About It" Diet

March 6, 2008

Why Does Nurture Affect Religion?

February 27, 2008

Is Mike Moffatt less than three degrees away?

February 27, 2008

EconLog Enters the Self-Control Market

February 27, 2008

Lax Discipline: Laziness - or Myopia?

February 9, 2008

Gintis on Happiness

Unfair Humor for the Greater Good (February 08, 2008)
Why Did Overall Course Quality at GMU Suddenly Decline? (February 05, 2008)
The Red Herring of Principal-Agent Problems (January 18, 2008)
Brooks vs. Caplan (January 18, 2008)
One Million Dollars! (January 17, 2008)
Economists for Self-Improvement (January 17, 2008)
Happiness Research (January 13, 2008)
Politics and Cults (January 09, 2008)
Political Scapegoating: How Farmer-Voters Respond to Bad Weather (January 08, 2008)
Virtual Political Economy (January 08, 2008)
An Iranian Communist Gets It Right in Persepolis (January 05, 2008)
Brockman, Mind-Changing, con't (January 01, 2008)
John Brockman strikes again (January 01, 2008)
The Szaszian Gestalt Shift: An Illustration (December 31, 2007)
New Working Papers of Interest (December 31, 2007)
Erikson, Althaus, and Why I'm Grateful to be in Econ (December 19, 2007)
Behavioral Philosophy? (December 12, 2007)
My Defense of Experts Against the Leading Expert (December 11, 2007)
Tolstoy on Disagreement (December 08, 2007)
Eliezer on the Ur-Mistake (December 04, 2007)
Attack Me at the Public Choice Meetings (December 03, 2007)
Senator X's Amazing Letter to Me (November 27, 2007)
A Fertile Criticism of Happiness Research? (November 23, 2007)
Sigmund Freud Meets Jack Bauer (November 19, 2007)
5 Miles of Economic Illiteracy (November 17, 2007)
Selling Self-Control: Will It Take Off? (November 12, 2007)
Neuro-Platitudinous (November 12, 2007)
Tim Harford's Next Book (November 10, 2007)
Watson on Summers: From Strange to Baffling (November 05, 2007)
How to Debate Happiness (October 31, 2007)
It Wasn't Nurture - Trust Me! (October 23, 2007)
Can Becker Save the Chicago School? (October 20, 2007)
Kahneman (October 19, 2007)
Make-Work Bias of the Macabre (October 18, 2007)
Survey Availability Bias (October 17, 2007)
Copyright, China, and Anti-Foreign Bias (October 13, 2007)
Tim Kane's New Blog (October 11, 2007)
Prisoners' Dilemma and The Unmentionable (October 04, 2007)
Today's Prize Winner for Overcoming Pessimistic Bias Goes To... (October 02, 2007)
The Flight from Intelligence, or That Which Must Not Be Named (September 23, 2007)
Happiness Research at a High School Reunion (September 21, 2007)
The Haidt Report (September 19, 2007)
Does the Public Suffer from Anti-Government Bias? (September 16, 2007)
Thoughtful Stuff from Steven Pinker (September 15, 2007)
A Signaling Model of Consumer Behavior (September 15, 2007)
Moral Psychology (September 12, 2007)
Tyler Cowen Interview (September 10, 2007)
Should Steven White Brand Himself a "Right-Wing Ideologue"? (September 08, 2007)
Guilty as Charged (September 05, 2007)
Judge This Magazine By Its Cover (September 05, 2007)
Public Opinion About the Future of Science: A Glimmer of Hope (September 04, 2007)
Morning Reading (September 04, 2007)
Uncertainty and Bias (August 30, 2007)
Viscusi Speaks (August 23, 2007)
Robin Hanson Video (August 21, 2007)
Hypotheticals in Presidential Debates: A Pathetic Aversion (August 10, 2007)
Foreign Policy vs. Domestic Policy in the Debates: Dumb and Dumber (August 10, 2007)
"Win-Win," as Filtered Through Make-Work Bias (August 07, 2007)
Dying in Vain (August 07, 2007)
Hide this from Robin Hanson (August 06, 2007)
Does It Matter If We're "Reality-Based"? (August 05, 2007)
Fabulous Wisdom (July 25, 2007)
My Kind of Democrat (July 16, 2007)
Garett the Gracious (July 14, 2007)
The Rational Liberal Minister (July 11, 2007)
Do Voters' Biases Bias Policy? (July 10, 2007)
A Creative Conspiracy Theory (July 10, 2007)
Daily Kos Falls Into My Trap (July 10, 2007)
The Consequences of Pessimistic Bias (July 04, 2007)
Overconfidence (June 28, 2007)
Boo for Applause (June 22, 2007)
Thermostats or Muscles? (June 20, 2007)
Neuroscience: Don't Be Intimidated (June 15, 2007)
Richman on How to Break the Catch-22 (June 11, 2007)
Who Wants to Marry Someone with Self-Control Issues? (June 10, 2007)
Does Learning Economics Radicalize the Right? (June 09, 2007)
Is Voter Irrationality a Catch-22? (June 09, 2007)
Mindfulness and Mindlessness (June 01, 2007)
Educated Women Don't Like Globalization and Trade as Much as Educated Men (May 30, 2007)
Rizzo vs. Thaler on Libertarian Paternalism (May 25, 2007)
Who's to Blame for Chavez? (May 24, 2007)
Evolutionary Psychology and Economic Bias (May 10, 2007)
Me at Britannica Blog (May 08, 2007)
Giving Surveys a Bad Name: Women's Day on Mother's Pay (May 05, 2007)
I Trust My Statistical Intuition (May 02, 2007)
Trust the Experts: A Reasonable, Defeasible Presumption (May 01, 2007)
Farm Subsidies: The Dirty Truth (April 27, 2007)
I Coulda Been a Contender (April 19, 2007)
Will Wilkinson on Happiness Research (April 13, 2007)
Subjective Age (April 12, 2007)
Do Econlog Comments Pass the Rational Expectations Test? (April 11, 2007)
You Can Do Anything You Put Your Mind To: A Noble Lie? (April 10, 2007)
Magic Potencies on the Mind as Whole (April 05, 2007)
Overcoming Popularity (April 04, 2007)
Why Not Wrestle With a Pig? (April 01, 2007)
Here is Wisdom (March 28, 2007)
Poor Choices (March 27, 2007)
Inside the Revolutionary Mind (March 26, 2007)
Patriotic Bias (March 26, 2007)
How to Increase Support for Free Markets (March 22, 2007)
Tyler's Crisis Mentality (March 20, 2007)
Bayesian Analysis of Hypocrisy (March 11, 2007)
Puzzled by Brad's Puzzlement (March 08, 2007)
Make That Maternalism (March 07, 2007)
Should There Be Compulsory Attendance for the Balan-Hanson Debate? (March 05, 2007)
"Mental Health," Moral Character, and Poverty (February 27, 2007)
The Myth of the Rational Voter, Sowell Edition (February 25, 2007)
Height and Happiness (February 22, 2007)
The Myth of the Rational Voter, Posner Edition (February 22, 2007)
Simply Wonderful (February 18, 2007)
Asymmetric Sell-Outs (February 12, 2007)
The Most Interesting Blog Comment I've Ever Read (February 08, 2007)
Hanson's Mistake: Facts, Values, and Experts (January 26, 2007)
Beating the Odds: Why Do People Insist on Even Bets? (January 23, 2007)
Tightwadism (January 17, 2007)
Million Dollar Babies: Economic Fact versus Popular Fancy in L.A. (January 06, 2007)
Me in the Economist (January 06, 2007)
Teaching Bias (December 23, 2006)
Robin Hanson's Intelligence Continues to Amaze Me (December 20, 2006)
How Egalitarianism Undermines the Study of Voter Competence (December 17, 2006)
Can 600 Economists Be Wrong About the Minimum Wage? (December 02, 2006)
Discovering Alan Fiske (November 30, 2006)
The Social Psychology of Gender Bias (November 30, 2006)
Does Happiness Research Raise Happiness? (November 27, 2006)
Do Experts Know More? A Childish Counter-Example (November 22, 2006)
Cato Unbound Update (November 17, 2006)
Election Prediction: Voting will be Irrational (November 05, 2006)
Samuelson: Blame the People (November 01, 2006)
Rothbard on Szasz (October 19, 2006)
Memetic Suicide (October 19, 2006)
I Heart Steven Pinker, continued (October 17, 2006)
Reduction to Banality (October 16, 2006)
I Distrust Robert Putnam (October 10, 2006)
Behavioral Vaccine (October 03, 2006)
A Quote that Should Have Been in My Book (September 27, 2006)
On Neuroeconomics and Paternalism (September 27, 2006)
Policy Beliefs and Policy Preferences: The Case of Guns (September 25, 2006)
The Euphoria-Disillusion Cycle (September 24, 2006)
They Called Me Mad: "The Economics of Szasz" Gets Published (September 18, 2006)
An Evolutionary Model of Depression (September 04, 2006)
Envy, Happiness, and Social Policy (September 02, 2006)
Beyond Irrational: The Hinckley Effect (September 01, 2006)
A Fool and His Money (August 27, 2006)
Sampling Bias on a Plane (August 20, 2006)
The Experience Machine (August 18, 2006)
Durable Experience (August 17, 2006)
Au Contraire (August 16, 2006)
What, Me Worry? Part II (August 14, 2006)
What, Me Worry? (August 08, 2006)
Paying for Parking (August 03, 2006)
The Joy of Oblivion (July 31, 2006)
Willpower as a Scarce Resource (July 24, 2006)
Intelligence and Economic Beliefs (July 13, 2006)
Self-Control and Civilization (July 06, 2006)
The Gender Gap of Economics: Knowledge vs. Interest (July 05, 2006)
Political Irrationality and the Brain (July 04, 2006)
Confirming Arnold's and Bryan's Biases (July 03, 2006)
A Few Good Laughs About Happiness (June 30, 2006)
Religion as a Basis for Trust (June 25, 2006)
Ten Ideas Worth Thinking About (June 22, 2006)
Challenge to Cowen and Gilbert (June 21, 2006)
Russ Roberts Gets Szaszian (June 19, 2006)
Errors in Charitable Giving (June 15, 2006)
Wisdom of Crowds? (June 12, 2006)
Economists Overconfident? (June 09, 2006)
Naked Guy, RIP (May 31, 2006)
The Confirmatory Bias Diet (May 22, 2006)
Cruise Control (May 18, 2006)
Scam (May 15, 2006)
Caplan, Bryan. 2007. The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies. Princeton, NJ. Princeton University Press. (May 12, 2006)
Scientific Self-help (May 05, 2006)
Is the Fundamental Attribution Error Fundamental or Even An Error? (May 03, 2006)
Differential Anti-Market Bias (May 03, 2006)
Shocked by the Gender Gap (April 28, 2006)
The College Choice (April 24, 2006)
Happy Totalitarians (April 24, 2006)
Can Psychology Save the Death Penalty? (April 23, 2006)
More Unhappiness (April 19, 2006)
Take a Guess (April 11, 2006)
The Gender Gap of Economics (April 09, 2006)
Ed Glaeser on Paternalism (April 07, 2006)
Arlo on Happiness Research (April 05, 2006)
Revealed Preference vs. Happiness (April 03, 2006)
Cognitive Economics? (March 21, 2006)
Goods, Bads, Marginal Utility, and Happiness Research (March 10, 2006)
Happiness Research: Get Used to It (March 01, 2006)
Why Experiments are Misleading (February 28, 2006)
Honest Measurement (February 17, 2006)
Lighten Up on Happiness, Arnold! (February 15, 2006)
A Happiness Experiment (February 14, 2006)
Individual Creativity (February 07, 2006)
Lust and Greed (February 02, 2006)
Fool Me Thrice, and I'll Trust You (February 01, 2006)
Confirmation Bias confirmed (January 25, 2006)
Valuing Life (January 19, 2006)
Mind Wide Open (January 15, 2006)
A Verdict on Mindless Economics (January 11, 2006)
Is a Bad Marriage Better than None at All? (December 07, 2005)
Seven Hypotheses About Environmental Bias (December 02, 2005)
Captain Bligh: Bad Economist or Bad Psychologist? (November 26, 2005)